p.butterfield1 wrote:
> Surely some of you have large harddrives!! Mines 20GB and I initially
> sectored off the last 5 for Linux. It didn't like that. More recently I
> sectored about 6 more from what was remaining for Linux. It complained
> in Disk Druid that the boot sector was too big!
Old versions of lilo had problems with boot sectors placed further than 8.4Gb
into a disk I think. Consider moving the booting partitions to the beginning
of the disk or getting a second drive for linux. (Booting from a floppy disk
may be a solution in the short term.)
The largedisk howto may be useful reading:
http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html
Tom.
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