Don Bonomini wrote:
>
> Hey everyone! Someone... HELP! I luved linux so much, i recommened it to
> a friend, and i went to install it for him.
>
> ok, so we defragmented, and ran fips to "safely" partition the drive. He
> has a 12 gig hard drive, and i set up the partitions as 10 gig for
> windows, and 1.1 gig for linux. Ok... partitioned fine. I ran the Linux
> install. Then Disk Druid. I delete the 1.1 gig partition we jus made to
> free up the space for the Linux partitions, and for some reason, when i
> try and create the root, /, partiton, it gives me the error, The
> bootable partition doesnt have enuff free space. It lets me creat any
> other partition i want, like /usr, or the swap partiton, but jus not the
> / partition. Ive read somewhere that the first (bootable) partition,
> which wuld be windoze of course, has to be within the first 1024
> cylenders of the drive? Is this true? If it is... is there anyway to
> install and run a dual-boot system giving 10 gigs to win and 1.1 to
> linux?
>
> Please help! I dont wannt my friend to sue me for messin his computer
> up!!! (No offense dave, if ur readin this :-)
>
> Well, thanks in advance! See yall later!
The 1024 cylinder advice is still true, and will continue to be true
until the x86 platform joins the 20th century. This is NOT a Linux
limitation, it is an architectural problem that will affect any
operating system on x86.
I'm wondering a couple things though. One, if you could use loadlin to
get around the 1024 cylinder restriction. Since the kernel would be
contained in the Windows filesystem, there wouldn't be any need to
revert to the BIOS to deal with booting. That's a possibility, but it
won't help you during installation.
What you might want to consider is creating just a very small (say 5 or
10M) partition that falls beneath the 1024 cylinder limit and use that
as the /boot partition. Then create a normal / partition that could
then be placed at the far end of the drive without causing any problems
whatsoever.
Give the second one a try and see what happens. It should work. The
first one was meant more as a "Hmm???" to people on this list that know
much more than I about the particulars of Linux booting.
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Steve Philp
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