The 1024 cylinder is not around 1.4GB on most drives - it's closer to
8GB and only the /boot partition has to be completely below the 1024
cylinder - the rest of the system can be anywhere on the disk. The
reason for the 1024 cylinder limit for /boot is that most BIOS can't
load anything above that so the /boot partition containing the kernel
has to be below 1024.
As to the original question - this could be the reason since hda2 is at
least partially above the 1024 cylinder.
Dave
> From: on4hu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hello
>
> let me know wat is "8g" is 8 Gigabytes????
> if this is correct
> linux must be installed, all version below the 1024 sector
> (around below 1.4Gb) and can never above this value
>
>
> At 09:22 29/01/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have the following partitions:
> >
> > hda1 8g Windoze 98
> > hda2 1g Linux (slackware)
> > hda3 1g Linux (slackware)
> > hda4 4g BeOS
> >
> >I am trying to install the redhat distribution to hda2, but disk druid
> >will not let me proceede.
> >
> >The next button is greyed out. Even if I set the mount point to / for
> >hda2.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >thanks
> >jsm
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