Spock
March 25th, 1999, 01:51 AM
I've got a 16.8 GB EIDE, Ultra ATA Hard Drive which was installed with the Dell Dimension I bought 6 months ago. It came installed with Windows 98, so I used fips split the single partition into two partitions.
At this point, the RedHat 5.2 installation told me that my disk was full! (I had a 6 Gig partition empty, and 10 Gig allocated to Windows 98)
With a little reading, I discoverd the problem Linux can have with large hard drives. Given this, I further reduced my partitions to allow the Linux partition to begin within the first 1024 cylinders. Linux installed!
However, now I have a new problem. After the Linux installation, I have one primary partition that is 6589 MB for FAT32. I then have another Extended partition that is 1443 MB (Which I assume Linux is using because I see no other partitions with FDISK in DOS or with Partition Manager.) This gives me a total of 8032 MB of my disk. The other half of my drive is not partitioned, nor can I seem to partition it.
Has anyone else run into this problem? Can anyone help me? Thanks!
At this point, the RedHat 5.2 installation told me that my disk was full! (I had a 6 Gig partition empty, and 10 Gig allocated to Windows 98)
With a little reading, I discoverd the problem Linux can have with large hard drives. Given this, I further reduced my partitions to allow the Linux partition to begin within the first 1024 cylinders. Linux installed!
However, now I have a new problem. After the Linux installation, I have one primary partition that is 6589 MB for FAT32. I then have another Extended partition that is 1443 MB (Which I assume Linux is using because I see no other partitions with FDISK in DOS or with Partition Manager.) This gives me a total of 8032 MB of my disk. The other half of my drive is not partitioned, nor can I seem to partition it.
Has anyone else run into this problem? Can anyone help me? Thanks!