Dear All,
I searched the web, archives and asked in some mailing lists
with no satisfactory solution. The situation is an Thinkpad
T42 with a 60GB harddisk, XP as well preinstalled as a service
partition. Repartitioning was unproblematic. If I try to
install any of the 5.x branch on t a free
Thomas Beer wrote:
I searched the web, archives and asked in some mailing lists
with no satisfactory solution. The situation is an Thinkpad
T42 with a 60GB harddisk, XP as well preinstalled as a service
partition. Repartitioning was unproblematic. If I try to
install any of the 5.x branch on t a
If the installer sees your existing XP and manufacturer service
partitions,
and they seem OK in terms of size, most likely everything is fine and you
can
ignore the warning about the geometry being incorrect.
What seems strange between 4.x and 5.x in the fdisk partition
table is, after
Hmm. If this unused slice is very tiny (less than 1% of the total
capacity),
it may be the remainder of the disk which unused due to the way the
partition
table values get rounded.
I suppose I've gotten used to only being able to fit 80 or so real
megabytes
onto a 100MB drive due to this
