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069835@bud.swin.edu.au (Julian Barclay Smith) writes:

>Hello, can someone help?
>i want to install linux 1.0.9 yet for some reason it doesn't want to 
>know about my system, i have a 1Gb hd split into 3 
>partitions,1=dos(300mb),2=os2(500mb),3=linux(200), plus 1mb for the os2 
>boot manager. When i boot the linux boot disk it loads and fails to see 
>both the ide cdrom and 1gb hd. when i adjust the bios to turn off LBA 
>mode linux sees the hd but fails to see the cdrom. Anyway after finishing 

Linux v1.0.9 had no support for ide-cd ROMS, so you will have to move up
to v1.2.13 to use your CD. Also, v1.2.13 will be more intelligent about
things like LBA, and v1.3.x can even handle the "Disk Manager" partition
table mungers that ship with 1GB disks to support broken old DOS.

While I advocate the use of v1.09 on small systems (i.e. less than 4MB
of RAM) the fact that you have a 1GB disk tells me that you don't probably
fall into this category. Hence v1.2.13 would be a better choice.

>with the root disk, i type setup,it tells me that theres no linux 
>partition,ok create one using fdisk /dev/hda3, can't find hda3, yet it 
>will find /hda1. has anyone else had this problem

You don't want to do that -- you want "fdisk /dev/hda"  -- i.e. the raw disk
device. The devices that you specify above are partitions themselves. While
it is theoretically possible to put another partition table inside a 
partition, it probably isn't too useful (with the exception of logical
partitons hidden inside an extended partition of course). 

Paul.