Ok, so GRUB can go beyond the cylinder 1024. I am dowloading then the ISO image of
Mandrake 7.1. I am half the way of completing the download. I looked for a howto on
burning iso images into CD, but found none. At the places I found something it was
only a "please refer to your CD-R manual".
What is the procedure to burn an ISO image into a CD to make it bootable? Do I burn it
just like that?
Thanks again!
Hugo GONZALEZ
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 9:37 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux
>
>
> I also have a Maxtor hd. When I installed it in my system I used the
>MaxBlast software included with the drive to format it before
>installing any
>OS. This software will write code to the hd that will prevent
>you from being
>able to use LILO, BootMagic, or the BeOS
>bootloader. You will have no problem with 7.1 and GRUB.
>
> Charles
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Hugo GONZALEZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 10:54 AM
>Subject: RE: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux
>
>
>> My hd is a Maxtor, and I partitioned 10Mb using DOS(Win95)
>fdisk. I am on
>my way of downloading the iso images for Mandrake 7.1.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Hugo GONZALEZ
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> >Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 6:33 AM
>> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux
>> >
>> >
>> > 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
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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