[plug] Mandrake 6.1 - patition too big

[Leon Brooks]

Frank Guidara wrote:
> I was wondering if someone could help me with this little problem I have.
> I've got a system with a 13.2 Gb HD that i can't seem to make any partions
> on it. It says that the partion I'm trying to make is to big. It dosen't
> matter how small I try to make any of the partions it doesn't accept it. If
> I rember right i won't even let me make a /boot 5 megs in size.

If there is no precious information on the disk, try an "o" command in
fdisk before making any partitions.