hey buddy
firstly, there's always a difference btw what the bios will show u
and what the os will show u 'coz some space is being used to store
critical info about the hdd. it's the same in the case of 1.44mb floppy ,
if u check, it's actual storage space is 1.38mb.
u can use the dm program on the seagate diskwizard diskette to
parition ur hdd. u just need a win98 bootable diskette to do this. follow
the on screen instns for advanced disk installation.
to install rhl6.2 & win98, install win98 first & then install
rhl6.2. it'll be better if u chose to write lilo on the MBR.
all the best.
him:)
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On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Harveer Singh wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've got a new HDD (Seagate ST310212A). I wanted to setup my system on it
> from scratch. I have the following config:
>
> P III-450, i440 BX, 64 Megs, Award PnP BIOS
>
> I want to have my system as dual boot with Win98 and RHL 6.2
>
> The BIOS shows the disk in LBA mode with 10243 MB.
>
> Now, when I create the partitions using the FDISK from Win98 startup disk,
> the total partitions' space is 9766 MB. Where did the rest of space go?
> Same result is there with disk druid from Zoot CD. The partition info is
> displayed as:
>
> +-----------+-----------+------------+----------+
> | Device | Required | Actual | Type |
> +-----------+-----------+------------+----------+
> hda1 2047 2047 Win95 FAT32
> hda5 3106 3106 Win95 FAT32
> hda6 3090 3090 Win95 FAT32
>
> Total : 9766 M Used : 8243 M Free : 1523 M
>
> If I create a swap of 70M, and create Linux Native (/) with "Grow to
> fill..." set, then all of 1523M is utilised except 1M which it still shows
> as free. Same thing happens when I try to create one more FAT32 partition
> from FDISK (m$)
>
> How should I go about making partitions so that whole of the space is utilised?
>
> PS ::::>> The only option that I have not tried yet is the Disc Wizard that
> comes along with the Seagate drives. But that needs a prior installation on
> Win9x on a separate HDD.
>
> Thanx in advance
>
> --
>
> Cheers !!!
> Harveer Singh
>
> (NXN - Not eXactly a Newbie)
> ICQ#:86100081
>
>
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