One thing which I have seen no-one mention... We are talking about an
Acer 486 box... almost certainly the bios can't handle large HD's or
large partitions. You may need to talk to ACER about a bios upgrade.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Three things:
>
> 0) Format a floppy disk on an existing Dos/Win95 box, and copy format.com,
> sys.com, and fdisk.exe to the floppy disk.
>
> 1) Make sure the primary DOS partition has the bootable flag set on, using
> fdisk
>
> 2) Install the boot loader by either using a:\sys.com or a:\format c: /s
>
> The /s flag of format is the same as executing the sys command, to install
> the DOS bootstrap programs, except that format will first format the
> partition, ie install a new filesystem.
>
> Right now you have no operating system on the boot partition, and you most
> likely don't have a filesystem on the boot partition either. That's why
> you're getting the ARF message when you try to access c:\
>
> Then and only then will that disk be bootable, unless you install another
> boot loader of some sort to the MBR (such as Lilo).
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Doug Apel
> Sr. Network Administrator
> Omnipoint Technologies, Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ana In�s Pintos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 7:42 AM
> To: LINUX-ADMIN; LINUX-CONFIG
> Subject: HELP me with a 4,3GB HD
>
> Hello:
> I�m trying to install a 4,3 GB in my ACER Computer, 486DX2, 16 MB of
> RAM
> My BIOS recognize it. I create one DOS partition of 1000 MB with DOS
> fdisk.
> Then I format this partition, reboot the computer and it says:
> Abort, Retry or Ignore all the time I try to accesing it.
> Then I would create another Linux partition of 2000 MB and the rest
> for Swap, but first I�m trying to install Win 95 in the first partition.
>
> May be, it�s caused by the mother that not supports more than 4096
> cylinders, I don�t know.
> What do I have to do in this case?
> Thanks
> In�s
>
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