From: dan@oea.hobby.nl (Dan Naas) Subject: Re: * partition question * Date: 7 May 1993 10:30:25 GMT
Samuel Samho Chang (sc5a+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:
: 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??
Yes. This is a problem. If the two partitions overlap, then you
are in trouble. Is your dos partition still ok?
: seemingly to me, linux doesn't realize the dos partition being there.
: but when i do p to list, there was partition #1.
How about showing us what the exact output was? That way we can
help you better.
: Anyways, i reboot the computer, and do
: the mke2fs -c /dev/hda2 82032 (80 megs)
: can linux handle that big of a partition??
Yes. With mke2fs, it can!
: thanx In Advance, Sam
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