[Linux-disciples] Partitioning a hard disk

[Dylan Thurston]

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On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 05:10:16PM -0700, karl sokol wrote:
> I reformatted my hd with 2 partitions + root.  (b/c I
> couldn't update Bios b/c it was a .exe and I couldn't
> get wine to work.  So, I am still limited to under
> 1023 cylanders at boot).  Unfortunately, this has
> caused it's own problem.  I.e.  When installing from
> my Debian 1 disk, (which I downloaded and burned when
> I had Win), I get to a point where it says "[Some]
> Packages failed to install.  Retry?"  When I say yes,
> "loading /etc/console/bootime.kmap.gz" repeats for a
> long time followed by "gzip: stdout: No space left on
> device" for a long time followed by "failed to
> preserve keymap!" for a long time followed by "link:
> no place left on device" and then "open: no place left
> on device" for infinity.

The right way to deal with large disks without updating the BIOS is to
tell Debian to that your root partition is one of the big partitions
(maybe /dev/hda2) and then go to the 'mount an additional partition'
option and mount /dev/hda1 on /boot.  /boot is the only part that needs
to be below cylinder 1024.

But maybe I'm misunderstanding the problem.

Peace,
	Dylan

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