[NTLUG:Discuss] "Boot Sector too Large?"

[JoeM]

Hello,
I just went through the same thing with RH6.2 on a 15,3 gig Hd. I worked
around it by fdisk setting up 2 gig section using fat 16 format so I can
add some old dos and windows programs in it. Then after reformatting the
rest for linux, I loaded up dos 6.2 on a floppy to recognize my cd, after
that, all I had to do was cd to the cd where RH6.2 had it's Autostart and
executed it. One thing I didn't do in the original confg was select custom,
if I start over I would and make sure to install all of Gnome and KDE, the
default KDE setup leaves out a lot of Gnome, or at least it did for me a
past 2 am when I did it.
Good luck, hope that helps.
Joe Martin
Dennis Myhand wrote:

> Hi All:
>
> I just rebuilt my system at home after a mobo crash and went to a larger
> 15.3gig hard drive from my old 8.4gig.  Now when I try to install RH6.2
> I get the message that my boot sector, or boot partition, is too large,
> and when I try to do SuSE6.3 and tell it to put LILO on a floppy, it
> will not write to the disk.  I know this is a LILO issue, and that it
> has been covered before in this group, but could someone point me in the
> right direction for fixing this?  Thanks, Dennis in Waco
>
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