[NTLUG:Discuss] Big Ass Drive

[Stuart Yarus]

> 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.
> 
Yes.  /boot needs to be entirely within the first 1024 cylinders - no
slopover allowed.  It looks like you have used 1020 cylinders so far, so
you have 4 cylinders (about 32 MB) left. 

I encountered a problem with Disk Druid (RH 6.0) partitioning a 13.5 GB
first primary EIDE drive.  DD saw only 1024 cylinders.  fdisk worked
fine; the rest of the install went fine.