I have the same model hdd. I am using Linux & Win95 very easily.
My current partition scheme is like this.
1st partition primary fat16 2 GB
2nd partition primary ext2 2GB
3rd partition primary swap 70MB
4th partition extended fat32 12GB
This partiton is further divided into several partitions.
I used the Win 95 Fdisk to setup the first 2GB partition. Then I used the
fdisk that comes with SUSE to setup the rest of the partitions. I have also
previously used a utility called partition manager 2.38 beta to setup up my
previous schemes. It is a freeware utility. It's available at download.com.
Only the beta version supports hdd's above 8GB. So you can give it a shot.
Amol Gokhale
----- Original Message -----
From: sas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] help
> Dear Linux Users
>
> I have been desparately trying to configure a 17GB IDE Hard Disk to work
> with RED HAT LINUX 6.1 & Win 98. It is a SEAGATE HARD DISK MODEL NO: ST
> 317221A
>
> I have already tried the following :
> 1. Created Primary DOS Partition of 8 GB & Extended DOS Partition
> of 4 GB, using WIN98, enabling FAT32 & Formatted the drives.
Successfully
> loaded WIN98.
>
> 2. Booted the system using the LINUX CD & started LINUX CUSTOM
> installation. On adding any size NATIVE LINUX partition using mount point
"
> / " , the partition is not created. It gives an error message that "No
free
> space to allocate the partition size", despite the fact, that an entire 4
> GB is free. But Linux Swap partition is sucessfully created.
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