At 04:38 PM 8/2/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Right. If you have a small /boot partition
>(~25 MByte partition) in the first 8Gig area of your
>disk, you will be able to boot OK. The rest of the
>linux can go anywhere.
Thanks, this did the trick. I set the / under 8MB, but not /boot. Now if I
can figure out the xconfiguration.
Rob
>
>Bill
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: James J. O'Keefe, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 4:14 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [newbie] Large HD install
>
>
>Doesn't this problem have to do with the size of the first partition
>exceeding 1023 cylinders and dos is not able to see the second partition?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pr. Robert Wurst
>Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 16:54
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [newbie] Large HD install
>
>
>I'm trying to install LM 6.0 for the first time. I used fips to decrease my
>windows 98 partition on a 13 GB HD. When I try and run Disk Druid, it comes
>up with an error "Boot partition too large." I know that I've read
>something about this, but can't remember where. Can anyone give me a hand
>with this? TIA
>
>Rob
