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Re: Installing Linux redhat

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From: hjohnson
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 15:49
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Darragh � H�iligh wrote:

> Hello all again,
> I'm trying to install Linux redhat this time, but I am running into
> another minor problem "I just wasn't meant to install this operating
> system"
> 
> The problem that I am having is:
> 
> I get to the step of Disc druid, I make the Native Linux partition and the
> Swap partition, but it tells us that the boot partition is too big, as far
> as I can tell, I didn't make a boot partition.
> 
> When I get past the boot partition being to big by putting a /linux as the
> root it tells me that I must include a root for the native Linux
> partition.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated
> 
> 
> Darragh
> www.digytek.com
> 
> 
Darragh,
        What it is telling you is that the partiton(s) that contain the programs, 
scripts and data nedded to boot from are on a pratition that is lagrger 
than 1024 cylinders. Or is located on a partition that is beyond the 1024th 
cylinder on the drive.
        The way I have done it is.

Device          Boot    Start   End     Blocks        Id        System
/dev/hda1       *       1       3       24066         e Win95 FAT16 (LBA)
/dev/hda2               6       2491    19968795    f     Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3                   4           5          16065         83   Linux
/dev/hda5                   6           68        506016       83   Linux
/dev/hda6               516      1027      4112608+    b    Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda7                  1028     1058      248976       82  Linux swap
/dev/hda8               69         515      3590496     83  Linux
/dev/hda9                       1059     1504     3582463+   83  Linux
/dev/hda10              1505     1566     497983+    83   Linux
/dev/hda11                      1567     1693    1020096     83   Linux
/dev/hda12                      1694     1789    771088+     83   Linux
/dev/hda13              1790     2491    5638783+   83   Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Command (m for help): 

Device            Mount Point   Description
/dev/hda1        /mnt/win_c        DOS Boot Disk
/dev/hda2                                  DOS Extended partition
/dev/hda3       /boot               Linux Boot Disk (images and maps)#
/dev/hda5       /               Linux Root#
/dev/hda6       /mnt/win_d      DOS windows disk
/dev/hda7                       Linux swap disk
/dev/hda8       /usr            user programs scripts and data#
/dev/hda9       /usr/local      Local programs scripts and data
/dev/hda10      /var            Variable Data
/dev/hda11      /root           Root account programs scripts and data
/dev/hda12      /mnt/iso                I use this to hold data to burn on CD
/dev/hda13      /home           Home accounts

# Any thing that is called during the boot process must reside below the 
1024th. It makes no difference if it is on a primary or extended partition, 
but it nust be below the 1024 cylinder boundry.
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