[NTLUG:Discuss] Big Ass Drive

[Juliet Blosser]

On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:53:07PM -0500, Carter B. Bennett wrote:
> Just purchased a BAD from Fry's 17.5GB. I have two 4GB Win98 partisions,
> and was going to give the rest to RH 6.0. I am using Disk Druid the drive
> Geom. is:
> Cyl = 2100	Heads = 255	Sec = 63
> 
> It shows : Used = 8001	Free = 8471
> 
> And this is right, but when I try to create a 500MB "/" partision it tells me:
> 
> /	Not enough free space 500M/NA
> 
> As we speak I am searching the LDP for answers but I'm not sure what to
> look for other than "Installing Linux On A Large Disk". If anyone has
> climbed this hill before please shed some light. It's hard to think that
> with all the new things with Linux there is a drive limit.

There's not a drive limit as such, but /boot needs to be in the 
first 1024 cylinders.  I've installed on a couple of larger drives,
and just put a small (3-5meg) /boot partition on the drive first, 
then the rest of the stuff.  Disk Druid occasionally gives some
...unenlightening messages.  You might try another partition utility
to verify exactly what the problem is.