Hi friends, I was planning to install LINUX on my PC. Finally I caught hold of a "Red Hat Linux 7.x Bible" and was following the guidelines there. I am facing problems during creation of disk partitions. I am working on this from 3pm. Now it is 5pm.!!
My PC has a 20 GB HDD divided as below "C:" 9.77 GB FAT32 "New VOLUME" 4.88 GB FAT32 3.99 GB Free Space and W2K runs on it. I was planning to install LINUX on the above(3.99 GB) free partition. The problems that I face are in: (1) Disk Druid When I create a few ( /boot, /, /usr...) partitions I get the following message "You have put the partition containing the kernel( the boot partition) above the 1024 cylinder limit, and it appears that this system BIOS does not support booting from above this limit. Proceeding will most likely make the system unable to reboot into linux. If you choose to proceed, it is highly recommended you make a boot floppy when asked. This will guarantee you a way to boot into the system after installation. Press OK to proceed or cancel to go back and reassign the partition". I chose cancel (2) FDISK The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2043. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with : a) software that runs at boot time (eg. old versions of LILO) b) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (eg. DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) The partitioning information is displayed as below: Disk /tmp/hda: 255 heads 63 sectors 2434 cylinders units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device boot start End Blocks Id System /tmp/hda1 * 1 1275 10241406 c WIN95 FAT32 (LBA) /tmp/hda2 1276 2433 9301635 f WIN95 Ext'd (LBA) /tmp/hda3 1276 1912 5116671 b WIN95 FAT32 I aborted thsi FDISK also. Can any of you please suggest to me as to how I could proceed further from here ? Thanks in advance Satish _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
