Hi,
On Wed, 27 Jan, 1999 à 09:17:47PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Having managed a trial install of Debian, I'm trying to get the kinks out.
>
> Original problem: The standard install had problems formatting and
> recognizing my 13.6 Gig disk.
> I assume this is a limitation of cfdisk. I used fdisk from another window
> and then rebooted to
> get things going. Because I wasn't sure all was well, and because I like
> making things work, I thought
> I'd try giving the loader the hard drive geometry. Which led to ....
>
>
> Second problem: When I boot off the CheapBytes CD and type
> hd=26353,16,63
> It responds
> Could not find kernel image: hd=23353.,16
You should use linux hda=...
^^^^^ ^^^
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| name of the disk
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name of the kernel image
>
> So I'd appreciate answers to any or all of the following questions:
> 1) How do I specify hard drive geometry to the loader for the inital install?
See above
> 2) If I do specify such parameters, will it help cfdisk?a
I don't know, I'm used to fdisk
> 3) If I don't, but use fdisk, will the rest of the install be OK (as long
> as I honor the installation guides warnings to activate paritions via the
> installer GUI)?
Yes if you keep either / or /boot partition in the first 1024 cylinders in
order to uses lilo
Bye
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