DD Solution (was Re: Disk Druid Install Problems)

2000-01-31 Thread John S. Muller
Hi, I deleted my 2nd partition (hda2) and created an extended partion. In that partion I created a 3 logical partitions (swap, root, and boot). After I did this DD let me proceed. It was misleading since Redhat helps states they "RECOMMEND" and not "REQUIRE. Thanks for all your help. I

Re: Disk Druid Install Problems

2000-01-31 Thread John S. Muller
Giraffes! on4hu wrote: 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:

Re: Disk Druid Install Problems

2000-01-31 Thread Eduardo Arista
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Disk Druid Install Problems Forwarded by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The 1024 cylinder is not around 1.4GB on most drives - it's closer to 8GB and only the /boot partition

Disk Druid Install Problems

2000-01-29 Thread John S. Muller
Hi, I have the following partitions: hda18g Windoze 98 hda21g Linux (slackware) hda31g Linux (slackware) hda44g BeOS I am trying to install the redhat distribution to hda2, but disk druid will not let me proceede. The

Re: Disk Druid Install Problems

2000-01-29 Thread on4hu
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: hda18g Windoze 98

Re: Disk Druid Install Problems

2000-01-29 Thread Dave Reed
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

Re: Disk Druid Install Problems

2000-01-29 Thread Manuel Camacho
Where is your SWAP partition? DD requires at least 1. -Manuel. On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, John S. Muller wrote: Hi, I have the following partitions: hda18g Windoze 98 hda21g Linux (slackware) hda31g Linux (slackware) hda44g