From: Samuel Samho Chang <sc5a+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: * partition question * Date: Thu, 6 May 1993 10:28:24 -0400
Hi netters,
As a second attempt since last november, I tried to install Linux yesterday
with no success...
I have a 486/dx/33 w/8 meg ram.
It is a 160 meg hardrive partitioned into 2 parts.
I used fdisk in dos to get 1 bootable dos partition of 80 megs
then load up using the rawwritten A1, do fdisk from linux
added a primary partition (#2).
** but instead of the first cylinder begin 500 or so, it was from 1 to 977 **
is that a problem??
seemingly to me, linux doesn't realize the dos partition being there.
but when i do p to list, there was partition #1.
Anyways, i reboot the computer, and do
the mke2fs -c /dev/hda2 82032 (80 megs)
can linux handle that big of a partition??
I also try two 40 megs partition for linux
but both times I got a message after mke2fs
saying that "it couldn't find a block for the innode table"
or something similiar....
And the file system was not written on partition #2
Any thoughts??
thanx In Advance, Sam