You can always do the install and boot Linux from a floppy or upgrade to
7.1 and use GRUB as the bootloader. It does not suffer from the 1024
error.You can also move Windows to the end of the drive, it will boot from
anywhere and install Mandrake on the first 10GB.
One other note. You did not say what brand hd or which tool you used to
formatt. If you used a floppy supplied with the drive then you will most
likly get the 1024 error regardless of where you install LILO.
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux
> Hugo GONZALEZ wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone.
> >
> > I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at
all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows
98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left
only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb), the rest of the disk would be for Linux.
Then I tried to install Mandrake, but DrakX told me that the partition for
Linux is beyond the cylinder 1024, so I quit installation. I surfed the
internet to read some howtos, but my confusion grew larger. My question is:
can I install Linux without making a /boot partition within the cylinder
1024?
> >
> > Can I keep my hd like
> >
> >
!----------------Win98(10Gb)--------------!!--------------------Linux-------
-------------!
> >
> > or should I go to something like
> >
> >
!-/boot-!!-----------------Win98---------------!!-----------------Linux-----
-------------!
> >
> > Please, if you'd be so kind to clarify this to me.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Hugo GONZALEZ
>
> Hugo,
>
> This is very easy to fix. When you're doing the install and you're
> partition your HDD for Linux make these partitions.
>
> "/boot" = 10Meg
> "/" (your 'root' partition) = HOwever big your you want according to
> physical limits
> SWAP partition = 200 - 300 Meg
>
> that's really all there is to it.
> --
> Mark
>
> I love my Linux box...
> REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows!
> Registered Linux user #1299563
>
>
