Robert Nordier wrote:
>
> > I assume that if I set the gemoetry in fdisk to be the BIOS figures,
> > that I will lose the other half of the disk?
>
> Use 2096/255/63 in sysinstall.
That worked! Here is what I did in the end:
* set the BIOS disk type to Auto detect in LBA mode
* booted 2.2.8 install diskette. Set the disk geometry in fdisk to
2096/255/63.
* created three slices. The first two were both 3Gb, a bit smaller
than I would have liked, but they both fit within the 1023
logical cylinder boundary. The third slice contained the
remaining 10Gb+. About 5Mb of unused space was left at the
end.
* installed 2.2.8 into partition 1.
* booted 2.2.8, and used fdisk to set the disk type to 6
* booted the 3.2 install disk. Checked the geometry settings were the
same in fdisk, and set the second slice to be the active
partition
* installed 3.2 in the second slice
* booted 3.2, and used its fdisk to set the partition type of the
first slice back to 165
* booted a DOS diskette, and installed os-bs.
The changing of the partition type was a necessary step; without this,
the 3.2 install would still complain and refuse to make the root
file system.
Thanks for the help, Robert. Hopefully the summary above will be useful
to others as well.
g.
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