Re: [newbie] LILO and the blasted 1024 cylinder limit

1999-10-18 Thread Sam
If you have the full version of partition magic or partition commander, do this. 1. copy any important datfiles on your linux partition to the windoze partition 2. delete one of the linux partitions, since you've just installed it, you'll lose less work than deleting your windows partition 3. move

Re: [newbie] LILO and the blasted 1024 cylinder limit

1999-10-18 Thread Kumba
Nope...brand new machine, Gateway PIII 500, 128 megs of ram, 13.6 drive, riva tnt2 card w/ SB Live! Value card, which I also hope to get working soon.. I just wanna get Lilo to install some how that doesn't involve damaging my windows 98 partition, or without buying a new harddrive cause the smal

Re: [newbie] LILO and the blasted 1024 cylinder limit

1999-10-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, you wrote: > I've just used Partition Mmagic to split up a 13.6 gig > drive into a few partitions to install Mandrake 6.1 > on. However, I can only boot linux from floppy (which > takes 5-7 minutes), and not from LILO, cause lilo > can't install itself into the MBR due to a "

[newbie] LILO and the blasted 1024 cylinder limit

1999-10-18 Thread Kumba
I've just used Partition Mmagic to split up a 13.6 gig drive into a few partitions to install Mandrake 6.1 on. However, I can only boot linux from floppy (which takes 5-7 minutes), and not from LILO, cause lilo can't install itself into the MBR due to a "1024 cylinder limit". Is there any way a