Hi,

I'm trying to install Mandrake 7 power pack on a
PIII pc with a 20GB disk (IBM Deskstar) with
Windows98. I opted for 'Recommended' install and
resized my Windows partition to about 9.5GB and
did an 'auto allocate' on the remaining disk space.
DrakeX created /, swap and /home partitions but
warned that a /root partition is needed for LILO.
It let me continue the installation however, but
I'm getting the following message when I tried to
create a Custom Boot disk:
"Installation of LILO failed. The following error
occurred:  geo_comp_addr:Cylinder number is
too big (1200 > 1023)".

This is the first time I'm installing Linux and I
thought Mandrake is one of the easiest to install.
Can my Win98 partition be this big (>8.4GB) or I need
to reduce the size of my Win98 partition? Any help
will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Raja

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