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Problems installing RH5.2 on 14.4GB IBM disk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Serge Pluess)
Mon Nov 30 17:58:51 1998
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:02:20 -0800
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From: Serge Pluess <spluess@creative.net>
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Hi there
we have been struggling with installing a Dell II 400 with an IBM 14.4 GB
Harddisk.
This machine is going to have 98, NT and RH5.2 on it.
We created a small Fat16 C-Drive, followed by an extended partition with 2
logical partitions, the first one being a 2 GB NTFS partition with NT installed
and then a 9 GB Fat32 partition with Windows 98 installed on it.
There is 2 GB left of unpartitioned space which we wanted to use for RH5.2.
We wanted to follow the instructions from the HOWTO's with not installing LILO
in the MBR but in the superblock of the partition with RH and then copy the
bootsector to the C-Drive and use NT boot loader to boot into linux (As taken
from bootpart).
The problem is that booting from the two floppies and going into fdisk, I
cannot seem to get it to find the free space to create the partition and the
swap.
Tried to give the boot process the harddisk parameters, but still no success.
The Howto's also said to leave the free space unpartitioned and use fdisk, but
fdisk doesn't see any free space, so i tried to create the partition with
Partition Magic 4.0, but still no success.
Any suggestions on how to get RH onto that 2GB partition?
Primary Extended Free Space
|-------|-----------------------------|---------------|
40MB 11GB 2GB
Fat16 NTFS FAT32 Free Space
|-------|--------|--------------------|---------------|
40MB 2GB 9GB 2GB
Here is what I could find about the harddrive:
Physical Layout
Label capacity (MB) 14.400
Bytes per sector 512
Sector per track 165-264
No. of heads 10
No. of disks 5
Logical Layout
No. of heads 16
No. of sectors per track 63
No. of cylinders 16'383
No. of sectors 28'229'040
Total customer usable 14.400 MB
data bytes
Greetings and thanks in advance
Serge
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Hi there<br>
<br>
we have been struggling with installing a Dell II 400 with an IBM 14.4 GB
Harddisk.<br>
<br>
This machine is going to have 98, NT and RH5.2 on it.<br>
<br>
We created a small Fat16 C-Drive, followed by an extended partition with
2 logical partitions, the first one being a 2 GB NTFS partition with NT
installed and then a 9 GB Fat32 partition with Windows 98 installed on
it.<br>
<br>
There is 2 GB left of unpartitioned space which we wanted to use for
RH5.2.<br>
We wanted to follow the instructions from the HOWTO's with not installing
LILO in the MBR but in the superblock of the partition with RH and then
copy the bootsector to the C-Drive and use NT boot loader to boot into
linux (As taken from bootpart).<br>
<br>
The problem is that booting from the two floppies and going into fdisk, I
cannot seem to get it to find the free space to create the partition and
the swap.<br>
<br>
Tried to give the boot process the harddisk parameters, but still no
success. The Howto's also said to leave the free space unpartitioned and
use fdisk, but fdisk doesn't see any free space, so i tried to create the
partition with Partition Magic 4.0, but still no success.<br>
<br>
Any suggestions on how to get RH onto that 2GB partition?<br>
<br>
<font face="Courier New, Courier"> Primary
Extended
Free Space<br>
|-------|-----------------------------|---------------|<br>
40MB
11GB
2GB<br>
<br>
Fat16 NTFS
FAT32
Free Space<br>
|-------|--------|--------------------|---------------|<br>
40MB 2GB
9GB
2GB<br>
<br>
Here is what I could find about the harddrive:<br>
<br>
Physical Layout<br>
Label capacity
(MB)<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>14.400<br>
Bytes per
sector<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>512<br>
Sector per
track<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>165-264<br>
No. of
heads<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>10<br>
No. of
disks<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>5<br>
<br>
Logical Layout<br>
No. of
heads<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>16<br>
No. of sectors per
track<x-tab> </x-tab>63<br>
No. of
cylinders<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>16'383<br>
No. of
sectors<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>28'229'040<br>
Total customer
usable<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>14.400
MB<br>
data bytes<br>
<br>
<br>
Greetings and thanks in advance<br>
<br>
Serge<br>
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