I was trying to welcome some friends into the Linux fold
tonight, but ran into a snag. I have done dual boot
installations before with Windows NT and Win98. They
have always been successful for me. Until tonight...
Here is the situation:
-One IDE hard drive (approx. 9 Gigs)
-Windows 98 SE is installed on C: (hda1) which is 2070 Megs.
-My friend wants to have another partition, D:, be the same
size. (2070 Megs)
-The IDE bus is set to use LBA in BIOS. (Cylinders = 1108)
We got everything ready on the Windows side and then booted
to RedHat 6.2 Installation. When we got to the
partitioning section, any partition created for '/' was
"too big". We backed out and went back to DOS. We deleted
the logical drive D: and it's extended partition. We went
back to the LInux inastall and found we could only make a
partition no larger than 2078 Megs. However, after
attempting to install RH, when we went back to DOS, we
couldn't create a new extended partition on the unpartitioned
space.
I know that LILO can't read beyond 1024 cylinders. Is there
anything I did wrong? What is the best way to proceed? Up
until now, I always installed Windows 9x or NT first and left
unallocated space on the drive for Linux. Then, I just set up
my Linux partitions in the unallocated space. I never really
ran into this until I tried to set up dual boot with RH 6.2
(which I burned from an ISO) Any suggestions appreciated...
Thanks,
George
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