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mkcxcp wrote:
> 
> I have just installed a Quantum 3.2 Gb hard disk and I am now trying to
> install Linux.
> 
> I have tried the Red Hat (1.2.13) as well as Slackware (1.2.13) however
> I appear to be having a problem
> with the large size of the disk. I have been unable to partition the
> disk to create a Linux native
> partition and a swap partition.
> 
> I have created a DOS and extended DOS partition on the disk but I left
> approx 550 Mb to create a
> non-DOS partition. I wish to create the two Linux partitions in this
> space but I have had no joy.
> 
> I keep getting error messages saying that FDISK (Linux) cannot write to
> the disk. This occurs even after
> I have used the FDISK to set the correct cylinders, heads and sectors.
> In DOS this disk naturally uses
> LBA. I am assuming that Linux does not like LBA.
> 
> If some kind soul has seen this problem before and knows the solution,
> please post it to assist me and
> perhaps help other sufferes like myself.
> 
> BTW I did RTFM but I didn't find the answer. Either I missed it or this
> one is not included.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Tom W

No Linux does like LBA and if dos is using it then you must use it for
linux
just set fdisk (if it can't work it out itself) to the C/H/S that show
up
in the BIOS screen for your disk (might be something like 800/64/63)

If you use lilo then you must give it the linear directive or you can
use
loadlin which dosen't care because it has the kernel which can see the
disk
for what it is.

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