Re: partition cylinders

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From: Naftali Salz
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 16:22

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yes llo does not read beyond 1024 cyllinders, I advise you to either use
lodlin, or put lilo on a floppy

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, si lew wrote:

> Help
> I have a 20 gig hard disk  and would like to use both windows and linux on
> the pc.
> I put A partition  of 1.5 gig for linux. When I install linux (mandrake 6.0)
> it get to the point where it asks "where would you like to install LILO" I
> have tried both the MBR & ON THE LINUX PARTION.
> It keeps coming up with an error.
> I think it something to do with the cylinders because it's more than 1024.
>
> How do I get around this?
>
> Thanks
> Si
>
>
>
>

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From: Naftali Salz <salz@menix.bgu.ac.il>
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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:22:14 +0200
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