Michael Curry wrote:
At 05:22 PM 3/27/99 -0500, zentara wrote:
The booting partition can't "straddle" the 1024 cylinder limit from what I've read. I tried using fdisk in a new virtual console (using alt-F2 to get there) but encountered the same problem there... I couldn't create a partition that went past cylinder 1024.
As for /dev/hda1, that's currently my Win98 partition and I'd prefer to keep it that way if at all possible.
What I've done was to use a third-party software (e.g. - in my case Partition Magic by Powerquest - check www.powerquest.com). This software not only lets you create, resize and move the partitions anyway you want, but it also recognizes Linux native (ext2) and Linux swap type partitions, and in plus acts like a boot manager. I used this piece of software to create a partition at the end of my HDD, installing Linux in the middle (a pretty ugly solution, I admit). Creating instead a small /dev/hda1 could be indeed a solution, since we know that even though DOS and Win9x won't install but on drive C: (/dev/hda1), they are dumb enough not to recognize ext2, hence thinking /dev/hda2 is the drive C:. Anyway I haven't tried this way. Let us know if you succeeded and how. Best regards, Dan -- 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>>