Re: (no subject)
The first thing that comes to mind for me is to ask where on the hard
drive is your linux partition and where is Windows. Keep in mind lilo has
problems when your boot sector is past the 8 gig point. If you put the 5
gigs for linux first this may help. And personally I would advise
splitting your Windows partition in twain. One for system (say 1.5 GB) and
one for data (8.5). This way if you ever need to kill your system your
data will be safe. I hope this will help you.
Adam S Edgar
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, john mason wrote:
> To Whom It May Concern:
> I have a Western Digital 15.4GB harddrive and a 1.6 GB harddrive.There
> are in a pentium 100 system.I have been trying to install Linux Mandrake
> 7.0 Deluxe without any progress.My BIOS only
> supports up to a 8GB harddrive and I think that is promblem,but I am not
> sure.I cannot get a
> BIOS upgrade for my computer to overcome the 8 GB limitation.I used Disk
> Druid to format my partitions.I also have Windows98SE on the 15.4GB
> harddrive.I made a 10GB partition for Windows and left the other 5 GB
> alone for Linux.I used Western Digital EZBios to get pass my 8 GB
> limition.I also used the Western Digital Data Life Guard Tools to format
> my 15GB harddrive.When I used Disk Druid, I made one 4GB linux native
> partition and a 1 GB swap partition.Then it starts to scan the
> packages.I choose to install everything.After that it tries to installs
> but come up with and error message that say mount failed;error
> mounting.I have no idea whats wrong.I defragged my harddrive before I
> started to install it.Becuase I could not get Linux
> Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe to install on my 15.4GB harddrive, I installed it on
> my 1.6GB harddrive
> without any promblems.That why that I came to the conclusion that it was
> my BIOS limation.However I do not know for sure and would like any help
> or advice that could help me out wiht my situation.I would be most
> appreciative of any help I could get.
>
> Thank You,
> John Mason
>
>
>
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