You have encountered the 1024th cylinder boundry. LILO and the initial
Linux boot files must reside below the 1024th cylinder (first 7.88GB of the
hard disk). The /boot directory contains these files. You should create a
small Linux partition (20Mb is plenty) and mount it as /boot. Create that
20Mb partition first so that it resides around the 6Gb mark. Checkout
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/install/ipartit.html#Linux for suggestions on
the rest of your partitions.
To reinstall (completely), just run the same installation process again
(just putting the boot.img disk in).
HTH,
Matt
>From: Ernesto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [newbie] Suggestions
>Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 15:10:06 -0500
>
>Merry christmas to everybody.
>I would like some suggestions.
>I have a 13.6gb drive. I am using around 6gb. in 3 win partitions. The
>rest of the space I would like to use for linux. So I tried to use all
>of the 7 gigs in the root - "/", but disk druid would not let me, the
>max I think was 1860MB. So I would like some suggestions on how I should
>manage the 7 gigs for linux. I would like to keep the 3 win partitions
>intact if possible. Could some one give a suggestion for the following:
>*size of root - which I think should contain /etc, /bin, /sbin, /lib,
>and /dev
>*size of any of the others and how I should mount them
>I have 92 MB of RAM (4 for on-board video card)
>I also would like to know how to mount them on disk druid... I know that
>root is simply "/", but what about say... /usr, do I write "/usr" or
>"/usr/"???
>Also can I change the size later - or mount things in different places?
>and lastly - to reinstall (completely), can I just run the same
>installation process again (just putting the boot.img disk in)?
>Thank you very much.
>Happy holidays
>Ernesto Bartels.
>
>
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