if u have windows keep the windows partition at say 2 gb. then the next partition of
about 50-100mb (safe margin).... mount it as /boot
then create as big a partition as u wish... mount it as / or whatever is ur wish. shud
work. problem is with lilo refusing to recognise more than 1024 cylinders...
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On Fri, 26 May 2000 07:29:42 Vipan wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>am using linux for last 1 yr and recently i purchase new hard disk of 17 GB
>capacity.
>
>now my problems starts. first of all, when i try to install linux 6.0 ( and
>6.1 both separately), it refuse to make partition beyond 2 gb and then i
>find a alternative and make bigger linux partition with partition magic 4.0
>version from windows. now up to installation every thing was o.k..
>
>after installation system refuse to load lilo, linux boot loader with error
>that no. of cylinders of hard disk is 4096 and it should be max, upto 1024
>for lilo installation.
>
>
>
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