Hello,
Thanks for your reply. My drive is a 10G and according to the documentation, it has
16383 cylinders, so my last partition is definitely beyond 1026. Do you have any
other suggestions? Thanks.
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On 04 Feb 1999 08:20:27 Z Soulier, Frederic wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I had the same problem with an extended partition that was not recognized
>(Red Hat Linux 5.2). The problem was that the last cylinder of the extended
>partition was 1027 (my HD is a 8.4 Gb).
>If you want to install Linux on your last partition, make sure this partition does
>not go beyond the 1023 cylinder then Druid should be able to see your
>partition.
>
>From my experience, investing in 'Partition Magic v4' from
>PowerQuest is a must. You can format your Linux partitions, swap partition
>and because it runs under w98/NT it eases the installation process.
>The interesting part about this product is that you can move/resize/etc..
>your partitions without ANY loss of data which means you can tailor your HD
>as you like.
>I now have FAT32, FAT, NTFS, EXT2 partitions on this drive.
>
>Hope it helps.
>
>Cheers,
>Fred
>
>
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/02/99 02:46:00
>To: linux-newbie
>cc:
>bcc: Frederic Soulier
>Subject: Partitioning problem
>
>Hello,
>I am trying to install Linux onto my NT box. The drive is a 10G drive
> partitioned into 4 parts. I am trying to install RedHat Linux onto the last
> partition. The problem is that when I go into fdisk, I get a bunch of error
> saying that the partition has 2 different physical/logical beginning and
> ending. Furthermore, when I tried to delete the last partition, I don't
> actually get any free space on the drive. The same problem occurs in disk
> druid. It reports that I have negative free space. How can I solve this? I
> really would like to use NT only when I have to use VB and use Linux for
> everything else. Any suggestions would be great.
>
>
>
>
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