[ILUG] Disk Druid Question

[cybersean3000 at yahoo.com]

I think Disk Druid does have problems with partitions above the 1024 
cylinder limit.  Rather than fdisk, I would recommend cfdisk.


On 20 Sep 2001, at 17:09, Dave Hickey wrote:

> It's crapping out because the boot partition is above the 1024 cylinder limit. 
> You can create the partitions before you install and you shouldn't have a 
> problem. You could use fdisk to create your partitions or Partition Magic or 
> similar to do the same in windows before installing.
> 
> You'll have to use lba32 instead of linear mode for lilo too.
> 
> > Howdy, 
> > 
> > I am trying to install Redhat 7.1 on my machine, but I am having problems with Disk Druid.
> > The hd is a maxtor 20Gb, with 2048 Cylinders.
> > 
> > I can set up swap, fine for a while.
> > Then I can set up /home, stays fine.
> > Then when I want to set up /, it tells me that there is a problem as '/ is 1024'.
> > I read the Redhat guide, and it says that if want to set up a / partition and use the remaining disk space
> > I have to set up a /boot partition of at least 16mb, which I always do anyway.
> > Now, when I have done this two things happen.
> > The space I allocated for swap is removed, and I am told that there is no
> > remaining free primary...
> > The /boot section is not allocated either and complains about the disk having more than 1024 cy
linders.
> > But when the two above things have happened, / has been successfully alocated???
> > The other two partitions on the disk are NTFS for a win2k install.
> > 
> > Does anybody know what is happening, and how I can make it stop bugging the crap out
> > of me???
> > 
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated, 
> > 
> > TIA, 
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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