On Mon May 22 2000 at 21:33, "Grigory Pendler" wrote:
>
> Maybe this one is out of topic, but I'm
> trying for two days, and I never seen that before
> Redhat manuals are not helping
>
> I have 13.2G Seagate ST313032A HD
> 80% percent is in use by windows partitions.
> When partitioning during Linux installation
> I can create some file systems (/usr, /home etc.)
> But when trying to create / or /boot i get
> them in red color and it says "Boot Partition is too big..."
>
> Is there a way to solve this?
No. And yes.
Check the "use fdisk" button in the top right-hand corner of the
install type panel and use fdisk rather than disk-drongo. If it is
a pre-rh6.2 install (eg, rh61), then use "expert" mode.
But this still won't help.
You say the first 10Gb or so is FAT, occupied by windows. (Heh,
lucky you :)
Your bios probably can't boot off a boot image that is past cylinder
1024 (~500Mb). What disk-drongo is trying to do is to create a
small one or two cylinder partition for /boot/ to make sure that the
kernel boot image can ALWAYS be found by the bios (since /boot/ is
completely located below the 1024th cylinder).
You might try to see if your bios can boot (via lilo) a kernel image
well past that mark, and if it works then smile.
If not, then either get yourself another hard drive for linux, or
move the dozer partition "upwards" 8Mb or so to make room for a
/boot partition (using something like partition magic). gnupart is
a linux utility that can resize ext2 partitions, I'm not sure if it
works with other filesystem types.
Cheers
Tony
