On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Dirk Fung wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I tried to install linux (slackware 3.6 and redhat 5.2) in a 10G hard disk.
> Knowing the 8M ide limit of linux, I specified the geometry of the HD
> to the installation programs by entering
> boot: vmlinuz hda=20961,15,63 (in slackware), and
> boot: linux hda=20961,15,63 (in redhat).
> Still both trials failed in fdisk, cfdisk and Druid.
> They just couldn't write on the HD.
> (P.S. I boot on CDs and failed also when not specifying the HD parameters.)
Take a look in your BIOS to make sure it's reporting what the disk actually is.
Make sure that there aren't any hard disk utilities like EZDrive in use.
Otherwise, there's a large-harddrive-HOWTO available.
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Arandir...
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