On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <snip> > > My HD is a Western Digital 6.4gb drive... > > > > /dev/hda: 784 cyls, 255 heads, 63 sectors > > units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > > > device Boot Begin start End Blocks ID System > > /dev/hda1 * 1 1 17 131323+ 6 Dos16-bit>=32M > > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: ^^^^ > > phys = (16,89,63) should be (16,254,63) ^^^^ > > > > It is telling you thet you ended the partition at 23 and fdisk wants > you to end it at 16 or 89 or 63. > > > It takes some time but you can enter them such that you don't get > those pesky '+'.
Alternatively, try cfdisk. It makes the whole procedure much easier Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte