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Raider wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Klaus Drechsler wrote:
> > yesterday I bought a new harddisk (quantum fireball ex 12,7). with fdisk I
> > made two partitions - c and d - for windows 98 (i have left 1.5 GB for linux).
> > alright, today I installed linux (dld-distribution) with no problems, but
> > when I tried to install LILO I got an error that I have 1550 cylinders and
> > it is only possible to have a maximum of 1024. I cant boot linux.
>
> Try making a small partition for windoze (200-300M) than a Linux
> native partition (about 100M) which will be the /boot or /. Than you are
> free to partition your hard drive any way you want it.
>
> > do I have to install another boot-manager, or are there some tips&tricks to
> > manage this ?
>
> Fist that is a BIOS problem. It occures only at boot time because
> Linux doesn't use BIOS information. All you have to do is to make all
> your bootable partitions in such a way that they will start before that 1k
> cylinder. Else, Lilo seems to be the best boot manager, and the
> cheapest...
>
> > and how can I access VFAT32 partitions ? (I want to access the two win98
> > partitions c and d)
>
> Any kernel, older than 2.0.33 will see fat32 as long as you have
> vfat support compiled.
>
> Raider
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