Michael Curry wrote:
I have a 10G IDE hard drive that I'm planning on running both Linux and Win98 from. I used FIPS to partition the drive so there are 8G for Win98 and 2G for Linux. The problem is the fact that the disk has 1247 cylinders and during the installation YaST refuses to have anything to do with creating a partition. I realize that the kernel wants to be installed under 1024, but I assume there's no reason that Linux can't make use of the cylinders over 1024 for things like my /usr and /home partitions.
The booting partition can't "straddle" the 1024 cylinder limit from what I've read. If I were you I would make /dev/hda1 a 1 sector partition to mount /boot. Then divide the rest up anyway you want. /dev/hda1 will only be about 10 megs and surely won't straddle 1024 cylinders. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>