I had that same problem. I had first installed mandrake 6.1 which had just
the swap and native partition. No /boot or /home. so I dumped all of that
and went back to having just the one full partition on my harddrive with
windows then went thru the mandrake 7 install.
(most people seem to recommend a new install rather than an upgrade over the
top.)
As I was then installing onto my only drive that had windows on it as one
10gig drive, when going into the Mandrake install I got that same error. I
had to resize the size of the partition down to 8228MB to avoid getting this
error. Resizing like this had something to do with the 1024 cylinder limit
and where its placed before the install will work. Anyway, then it gives
you a New empty Partition. I simply just selected the new grey empty
partition and clicked on auto-allocate. the install program quite happily
then set up all 4 linux partitions for me.
regards
Gina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ger-Bil Jinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, 13 February 2000 07:34: pm
Subject: [newbie] LILO and NIC troubles
> I've installed and ran Mandrake 6.1 just fine before, so I decided to
> upgrade to 7.0 and that's where trouble started:
>
> First, when I designated the root directory in the partition setup of
> the installation, I got this message:
>
> The partition you've selected to add as root (/) is physically located
> beyond the 1024th cylinder of the hard drive, and you have no /boot
> partition. If you plan to use the LILO boot manager, be careful to add a
> /boot partition.
>
> And near the end when it was trying to install LILO, I got this
> message:
>
> Installation of LILO failed. The follow error occurred:
> geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1343 > 1023)
>
> Can anyone explain to me this, and a way around it?
>
> And to another problem I had during the install was configuring my
> network adapter. I have a Netgear NE2000 compatible card but when I
> select "NE2000 and Compatible" and trying to autoprobe it, I get the
> follow message:
>
> Loading Module NE2000 and compatible failed.
>
> Any reason and workaround for this problem?
>
> Thank you!
>
> <:3)~~
