Thanks a lot Bish, for ur in-depth reply! But right now I am not sure whether I want to implement any of the alternatives(changing the partitions and so on...) that u've suggested me.
I shall try during the weekend and experiment... Thanks and Cheers Satish >From: USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: LIH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIH] help needed: linux installation - 1024 cylinder pbm >Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 22:04:12 +0530 > >On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 11:33:24AM +0000, Satish KumarB wrote: > > > > My PC has a 20 GB HDD divided as below > > "C:" 9.77 GB FAT32 > > "New VOLUME" 4.88 GB FAT32 > > 3.99 GB Free Space > > > > and W2K runs on it. > > > > I was planning to install LINUX on the above(3.99 GB) free partition. >The > > problems that I face are in: > > > > (1) Disk Druid > > When I create a few ( /boot, /, /usr...) partitions I get the following > > message > > "You have put the partition containing the kernel( the boot partition) >above > > the 1024 cylinder limit, and it appears that this system BIOS does not > > support booting from above this limit. > > Proceeding will most likely make the system unable to reboot into linux. >If > > you choose to proceed, it is highly recommended you make a boot floppy >when > > asked. This will guarantee you a way to boot into the system after > > installation. Press OK to proceed or cancel to go back and reassign the > > partition". > > > > I chose cancel > > > > (2) FDISK > > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2043. There is nothing >wrong > > with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups >cause > > problems with : > > a) software that runs at boot time (eg. old versions of LILO) > > b) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (eg. DOS FDISK, OS/2 > > FDISK) > > The partitioning information is displayed as below: > > > > Disk /tmp/hda: 255 heads 63 sectors 2434 cylinders > > units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > > > Device boot start End Blocks Id System > > /tmp/hda1 * 1 1275 10241406 c WIN95 FAT32 (LBA) > > /tmp/hda2 1276 2433 9301635 f WIN95 Ext'd (LBA) > > /tmp/hda3 1276 1912 5116671 b WIN95 FAT32 > > > > I aborted thsi FDISK also. > > >---end quoted text--- > >Hmmm ... you seem to be having an old BIOS (like me). Fortunately >it can handle the 20GB disk otherwise. > >Don't be frustrated. You can still install Linux in the lower >part of your hard disk. You would be faced with the 1024-voodoo >so LILO as a boot loader is out. You would have to go to grub or >some alternate boot loaders at a later stage ... For now, do the >following: > >o Do NOT touch your FAT32 partitions at all. > >o Since you have done your initial formatting under M$, you have > only ONE Primary partition, and the rest Extended, from 1276th > cylinder onwards. You may have to kill this extended partition > since it is occupying right upto the 2433rd cylinder, with no > more free space in the disk. This is optional. If you kill it > you have a better chance of re-arranging things. > >o In case you do not want to lose data in D: (/dev/hda3), go > through linux fdisk and create more logical partitions under > /dev/hda2. Don't make too may partitions. You have only cylin- > der 1913 to 2433 free (Note: M$ fdisk has knocked off Cyl No > 2434, and you cannot remark the boundary now!). > >o The minimum you need is about 2+ Gigs for /, about 1 gig for > /home (where you can keep your data) and a swap which should > be 2 to 3 times your physical ram. Any extra space may be all- > ocated to "/" (root). > >o After formatting keep bootable flag on /dev/hda1 (M$ MBR). > >o Continue installation as normal. > >o Do NOT install LILO on the MBR. Install it on the 1st sector > of the root partition. It will install on the boot record of > the extended partition. > >o Make at least 2 to 3 boot floppies, because till the time you > get your dual-boot running, you need to boot from floppies. > >o Before you commence, make sure you have boot disks of your M$ > system ready, so that you can do a "fdisk /mbr" to restore the > M$ MBR in case of accidental over-writing. > >o If your M$ system is 9x type (viz 9x/ ME) then use loadlin to > dual boot. If the M$ system is NT type (NT/2k/XP) then dual- > boot through boot.ini under M$. Detailed instructions on how > to do them is on my home page: > > http://geocities.com/usmbish/hdi.html > >o Any further queries, come back ... > >HTH > >Bish > >-- >: >####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### > >Sub : Sysadmin things (hostname in RedHat) LOST #201 > >To change the host name of your RH machine, as root edit file >/etc/hostname. Secondly, place in file /etc/sysconfig/network >'HOSTNAME=hostname_string', else on reboot it will revert to >localhost.localdomain! 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