> because windows is that OS which give you the future.
Oh really ? arn't you on the wrong mailing list then ?
> here is example, your 17GB no problem with Windows installation and
> configuration but see in Linux, still linux not support Large-Disk,but may
> be
> future, so what is result ?
Now are you sure of that ? 17 Gb has no problems for linux. also the
latest lilo is supposed to have >1024 cylinder support.
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a typical problem. I have a 17 GB HDD, of which there is 2 GB
> > partition of FAT16 which contains the WIN98 OS. The remaining 15 GB is
> free,
> > i.e i have partitioned the 2Gb using DOS fdisk utility and left the rest
> > unpartitioned.
> >
> > After that i have started the Linux installation. When i use Disk Druid to
> > partition the disk, it accepts everything except / and /boot. On entering
> > /boot with a size of 16MB or so it says partition too big, similarly it is
> > giving the same error for / size also. With this problem i am not able to
> > progress further.
> >
> > Can anybody point out the solution to this problem. There are no Extended
> > DOS partitions present in the HDD. So assume the except the 2GB of FAT16
> > rest is free.
Is that the exact error ? Not no free primary partition or lilo errors ?
is /boot getting hda2 and / getting /hda3 ?
Cheerio
Robin
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