On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 11:33:24AM +0000, Satish KumarB wrote: > > 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. > ---end quoted text---
Hmmm ... you seem to be having an old BIOS (like me). Fortunately it can handle the 20GB disk otherwise. Don't be frustrated. You can still install Linux in the lower part of your hard disk. You would be faced with the 1024-voodoo so LILO as a boot loader is out. You would have to go to grub or some alternate boot loaders at a later stage ... For now, do the following: o Do NOT touch your FAT32 partitions at all. o Since you have done your initial formatting under M$, you have only ONE Primary partition, and the rest Extended, from 1276th cylinder onwards. You may have to kill this extended partition since it is occupying right upto the 2433rd cylinder, with no more free space in the disk. This is optional. If you kill it you have a better chance of re-arranging things. o In case you do not want to lose data in D: (/dev/hda3), go through linux fdisk and create more logical partitions under /dev/hda2. Don't make too may partitions. You have only cylin- der 1913 to 2433 free (Note: M$ fdisk has knocked off Cyl No 2434, and you cannot remark the boundary now!). o The minimum you need is about 2+ Gigs for /, about 1 gig for /home (where you can keep your data) and a swap which should be 2 to 3 times your physical ram. Any extra space may be all- ocated to "/" (root). o After formatting keep bootable flag on /dev/hda1 (M$ MBR). o Continue installation as normal. o Do NOT install LILO on the MBR. Install it on the 1st sector of the root partition. It will install on the boot record of the extended partition. o Make at least 2 to 3 boot floppies, because till the time you get your dual-boot running, you need to boot from floppies. o Before you commence, make sure you have boot disks of your M$ system ready, so that you can do a "fdisk /mbr" to restore the M$ MBR in case of accidental over-writing. o If your M$ system is 9x type (viz 9x/ ME) then use loadlin to dual boot. If the M$ system is NT type (NT/2k/XP) then dual- boot through boot.ini under M$. Detailed instructions on how to do them is on my home page: http://geocities.com/usmbish/hdi.html o Any further queries, come back ... HTH Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Sysadmin things (hostname in RedHat) LOST #201 To change the host name of your RH machine, as root edit file /etc/hostname. Secondly, place in file /etc/sysconfig/network 'HOSTNAME=hostname_string', else on reboot it will revert to localhost.localdomain! Its a RH quirk ! ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>####################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
