MY hdd size is 10GB and I am unable to make any size
partition on my hard drive using Disk Druis.


--- Prasenjit Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> tell me how you have partionned your hard disk. What
> is the size of your
> linux partition? Basically lilo will not work for
> partitions having more
> than >1023 that cylinders. If you have installed
> LILO in your MBR which is
> what you seem to have done then the first partion
> should not be larger than
> 8GB(approx). The solution is to create a small boot
> partition <8GB.
> 
> prasenjit
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vipin Pandey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 11:54 PM
> Subject: [linux-delhi] Unable to make Linux native
> partition
> 
> 
> > Hi everybody
> >
> > I have bought a Pentium III 600 Mhz system  with
> > Tomato motherboard ( with inbuilt VGA card and
> sound
> > card ). When I use Disk Druid to create a Linux
> native
> > partition then it complains that I do not have
> space
> > on the hard disk. It creates the Linux swap and
> DOS
> > partitions easily. Win 98 was installed easily on
> it.
> >
> > When I used Fdisk to create the partitions and
> manged
> > to install Linux then at the
> > LILO prompt it stopped at
> > LI
> > So basically I am unable to install Linux on my
> > system. Please help.
> >
> > Looking out for help
> >
> > Bye
> >
> > Vipin Pandey
> >
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