At 12:44 PM 1/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm trying to install RH6.1 on a new system with a 12Gig drive.  It
>had two partitions, thusly:
>
>  - Partition 1: 8Gig Win98 (almost full)
>  - Partition 2: 4Gig DOS (empty)
>
>It appears that I can't install Linux on this machine without trashing
>the Win98 partition.  I nuked the 4Gig partition, but Disk Druid tells
>me that it can't create any new partitions because the "Boot Partition
>is Too Big".
>
Use Linux fdisk instead of Disk Druid.

>I understand the reason for this is that LILO insists on residing on
>the first 1024 cylinders of the disk.  Lo, that stinketh.
>
LILO doesn't care where it is, as long as the BIOS can load it, and
the kernel.  The usual place for LILO is in the MBR, so it gets
loaded on boot and gives you a choise of what OS to boot.  It has
to use the BIOS to load the kernel for Linux, so your BIOS must be
able to read the part of the disk that the kernel is on.  A lot of
the older BIOSs have a 1024 cylinder limit.

>Is there any way around this?  I'd be happy to install Linux without
>LILO, and just boot the Linux partition using a floppy.  But it won't
>give me that option.
>
Use fdisk instead of Disk Druid, and make a boot floppy.  After you
get the install done, you have a few choises.  You can mount your
Win98 partition, and copy the kernel there.  Tell LILO the location,
(edit /etc/lilo.conf.), and run LILO to tell it the new location.
(Make sure you mark it a system file in Windows, so it doesn't
get moved by disk defragmentation tools.)

You can also use a package called Linux-95, if I remember right,
that lets you good Linux from Windows 95/8.  If you cann't find
it, I'll E-mail you a copy.

Or you can keep booting from a floppy for Linux.

>Regards,
>Bob Rankin
>
Mikkel

    Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
 for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.


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