[plug] creating partitions

[Leon Brooks]

Grant Heazlewood wrote:
> I have at present a problem creating partitions with redhat. I am
> installing rh6 using a boot disk I do a custom install and use disk
> druid, when I try to create a  native partition with a mount point of
> /  'root' I get a message that the  "boot partition is to big"  and it
> has not been allocated, this happens no matter what size I specify and
> since it is a 4G drive that is totally dedicated to Linux I am at a loss
> as to what could be causing this.

Tell me why I always use Linux fdisk to partition drives. (-:

> I am able to format and use the whole
> drive in windows and up until today I was able to do the same with
> Linux.

Odd. I use a Linux boot floppy to partition for Windows on middle-aged
machines with a BIOS/HDD that Windows doesn't like (and so won't, by
itself, make its first partition larger than 0.5G).

> I have tried using partition magic as well and although this will
> create and format the partitions when I do the install I am unable to
> write the bootloader to the MBR or any other partition. Any thoughts on
> this from anyone would be greatfully appreciated.

When you say "unable to write," does this mean that you got an error
message, or that it went through but the machine wouldn't boot? In the
latter case, you may be dealing with a BIOS "track > 1023" problem.

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