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Re: boot partition too big ??

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From: earth.rc5
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 00:00
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On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:00:05 +0200, "Chenome" <chenome@mweb.co.za>
wrote:

>Hi there.
>
>I recently got ahold of Redhat linux 6.1.
>Im fairly new to linux, I would like to know why each time I try to install,
>it says boot partition too big. Even if i dont create a boot partition and
>just create a root and swap partition, I cant carry on without it.
>
>ive got a 16 gig harddrive, 13 gigs is used for windows, and I left the rest
the problem is simple (when u know the problem ;-) the bootpartition
hast to be in the first 1024 cylinders else u could get problem like
u.
to solve this create a 5 mb partition under the 1024 cylinder limit or
use a boot disk
>of the space unpartitioned for RH linux.
>
>How can I solve this problem ?, how do I go about ?.
>
>Pls and many thanks
>
>Derek
>
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