On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Rhichard Barth & Family wrote:
>
>
> Hello again "newbie Group"
> Well I've got a new one, I just got a 13.0 gig WD hard drive for free, I would like
>to use
> it all for Linux. I found that VMware uses it's own partition inside the Linux
>partition,
> better(or it's easier) than to use a second hard drive(Raw partition)
> The only thing is the 1024 thing....can I partition the 13.0 in fdisk without
>EZdrive? the
> Bios sees it as 8.4 gig but when I start fdisk I see the 25228 cylinders.
> When fdisk starts I get the following message:
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 25228
> there is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OS's
> (e.g., Dos Fdisk, OS/2 FDisk)
> I was thinking of doing two partitions,
> Hdc1= / at around 1208000 (give or take)
> hdc2= swap at around 600000
> then once all is ok I would install Windows98 and NT inside the 12.0gig partition
>using
> VMware.
> well what do you think?
>
>
> Rhich
> 8150164
>
Lop the first 20 megs off and call it /boot and you'll be just fine.
