On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 02:02:33PM +0530, Kashyap Software Solutions wrote: > > I am having problem installing LInux Redhat 7.1 on my machine. > I have a P4 with Windows2000 (NTFS partition) on my 40GB HDD > and I have another HDD 10GB on which I'd like to install linux. > I tried installing linux with the bootable on hdb1 (10GB HDD) > but i get the error that the size is larger than 1024 cyl and > even th bootable floopy is not able to boot it. > The HDD1 is master and the hdd2 is its slave. > ---end quoted text--- o If you are installing Linux on your second hard disk dedicated solely to Linux, it is a breeze, irrespective of the OS in the master hard disk. o Only problem you will face is that the booting mechanism of the MBR would still have to be used for dial-boot. Since it is W2k in your case, you have to dual boot through changes in boot.ini file of W2K (similar to NT dual boot). To check out the details see http://geocities.com/usmbish/hdi.html. o Please note, under Linux your master would be /dev/hda and by all probabuilities the primary slave is /dev/hdb, not hdd1 and hdd2 (/dev/hdd is for secondary slave, and usually CDROM is at that point). o The size > 1024 cylinder is a LILO warning. You cannot use LILO unless you want to dual-boot through LILO, and place LILO on the MBR of the Primary master (/dev/hda). In which case the 2k MBR would be over-written. o Go through the normal installation process, and place things in /dev/hdb (your Primary slave) ... Make a few boot disks during installation ... They should work ... Then tinker around with boot.ini. Mechanism is same as NT. Do NOT put LILO on MBR. Your system is likely to have problems of the 1024-voodoo !!! HTH Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : IDE device names in Linux LOST #084 IDE devices (HDD/ CDROM) Linux names 1. Primary master /dev/hda 2. Primary slave /dev/hdb 3. Secondary master /dev/hdc 4. Secondary Slave /dev/hdd ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>####################### :
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