At 08:44 AM 5/4/01 +0530, you wrote:
>>
>> But, it wouldn't make the native partition - it says:
>>
>> There are currently unallocated partition(s) present in the list of
>> requested partitions. The unallocated partitions are shown below along why
>> they are not allocated:
>>
>> / Boot partition too big
>I think this could be because the /boot partition coudl go past the 8 gb
>marker - just create a separate /boot partition at the begining of the disk
>say for 40 Mb or so. then create the / partition for yor 9.4 gb (though you
>really should also look at a separate /home partition of about 4 gb)
>
I'm not so sure that this problem is because of the 1024 cylinder limit.
I've installed linux on quite a few machines and I've come across this problem
for much smaller hard disks (on a 4 GB HDD). Tho' I've still not figured out
the cause or the solution to this problem.
Maybe ... somebody who'z come across this could throw some light.
-- Siddharth.
>HTH
>Ashwin
>
>> -------
>>
>> Is this because, I enabled large disk support in fdisk while installing
>> windows ? Any ways to get rid of this ?
>>
>>
>> TIA.
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