Re: [TCLUG:4873] Two install questions

[<skj@visi.com>]

I think you can do fdisk /mbr  (??)

Scott K. Johnson
skj@visi.com

> I don't know if I mentioned that I got my installation to work--what I
> finally ended up doing was reformatting the whole disk, putting the first 7
> MB into a windows primary partition, making 3 more primary drives (one for
> /boot, one for swap, and then the rest for /) for linux.  After adding the
> /boot partition under the first 1024 cylinders, it let me make / as large as
> I wanted.
> 
> BUT--my friend, who also has a 13 gig drive, is trying to do the same thing
> and has run into problems.  Linux doesn't recognize that his hard drive has
> more than 1024 cylinders at all.  This is different from my earlier
> problem--when I went into fdisk in linux on my computer I could create a
> partition that was larger than the 1024th cylinder, but just not in a way
> that was usable.  Here, fdisk doesn't even try.
> 
> Has anybody had this problem?  Does anybody know of a solution?
> 
> Also, if he can't get this worked out, he wants to get rid of lilo.  I know
> he has to reformat the mbr, but I can't remember how to do that.  Any help
> here?
> 
> 
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