Hmm Maybe you are having problems because of the size of the disk? the
kernel needs to be in the first 1024 cylinders I usually make a 20 meg
partition as the first partion of my drive for /boot just to be safe
Take a read of the Large Disk HOWTO
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Olszewski [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 1:45 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: partition problem again
>
> I'm not familiar with how Disk Druid displays its partition information,
> but
> probably hda2 is your extended partition, which contains logical partition
> hda5 -- since it's not a filesystem, hda2 isn't shown in the listing you
> see.
>
> You don't say how big the drive is, but I recall in you prior message you
> said that you'd left 3 gigs for Linux. That is what Makdrake appears to be
> using -- part as Linux native, part as swap. Another 3 gigs is DOS -- the
> 2
> gig (I'm guessing here) NT boot partition and the additional 1 gig
> partition
> in hda5.
>
> Now unless you have more actual drive space, there is no way to make more
> Linux partitions unless you remove one or more of the DOS partitions.
>
> As to the response: " The kernel is unable to read your new partition
> information. Probably becasue you modeified extended partition. You must
> reboot.........". Have you tried following instructions? What happens if
> you
> do reboot? The other possibility is that you are not writing the partition
> table before you exit Disk Druid (this is an easy step to miss with fdisk
> and cfdisk -- I don't know how easy it is to miss in Disk Druid).
>
> You don't ask, but I gether you are puzzled about why a workstation
> install
> will not fit in 3 gigs of drive space. So am I; Red Hat will do a
> workstation install in under one gig. It may be a problem particular to
> NT/Linux dual booting. I've never done this, but I know it has special
> problems. Read the mini-HowTO on it for more details. (Find HowTos through
> http://www.linuxdoc.org).
>
> At 11:41 AM 1/25/00 -0500, Tiezhi Zhang wrote:
> >Sorry, I did not state my problem clearly yesterday.
> >My computer is Dell OptiPlex GX1. The OS is Window NT. I partition the
> >HD by NT first and leave about 3G unpartition space for Linux. I am
> >using Linux-Mandrake 6.0. This is actually the same as red hat. I booted
> >up by installation CD. Then follow the installation instruction. The
> >problem happened when it came to Installation Class. "What type of
> >machine are you installing?" I chose Workstation at this point. I got an
> >answer there is not enough space for this selection! I have to choose
> >Custom. Then, I used Disk Druid to make partition. the following is the
> >partition result.
> >hda1 2047M DOS
> >hda3 2863M Linux native
> >hda4 133M linux swap
> >hda5 1106M DOS
> >When I tried to continue, I got the responce: The kernel is unable to
> >read your new partition information. Probably becasue you modeified
> >extended partition. You must reboot......... ?
> >Here is my question.
> >Where is hda2? why it is not displayed here?
> >How to make a supplementary partition to load the /usr and /home
> >directories.
> >
> >
> >
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
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