Re: Partioning HD with more than 1024 cylinders
Linux fdisk can partition disks over 1024 cylinders - at least the
version I have (2.9g) can. Cfdisk (v0.81) also can. These are the
current slink versions in the util-linux package.
Another option is the DOS-based Ranish Partition Manager, which you can
find here:
http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/
If you get the beta version (2.38), it can partition disks over 1024
cylinders, and it can create (but not format) Linux partition types. It
also has some nice command line options to get detailed information
about your partitions.
Tom
"Gerald H. Ristow" wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
> we just bought a brand-new computer which has a 18 GB (!) EIDE HD and I
> want to put Linux on it. It seems to have 2028 cylinders and I chopped
> of the space for Linux after the 1020th cylinder to stay under the 1024
> cylinder limit for booting Linux directly from HD. When I start the
> installation, I cannot (re)partion the HD. When I do it by hand, fdisk
> (under Linux) will only deal with 1024 cylinders. What can I do to use
> this HD with Linux in the usual way? Wait for Debian 2.1, use another
> fdisk program?
> Any help and suggestions are welcome,
> Gerald
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> Dr. Gerald H. Ristow
> Division of Engineering
> Colorado School of Mines
> Golden, CO 80401-1887, U.S.A.
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