Red Hat 6.2 Installation

[dogbert at clue4all.net (Brian J. Conway)]

> I have been trying to install Linux Red Hat 6.2 and to be very frank I am
> new to the linux world. I have a 20 GB hard disk and I partioned 5 GB for
> linux. I am able to reach the point in the installation procedure where it
> asks me the partion details. It is here that in the last detail it says
> that the partition area is too large (even if I give 1000!!) The normal
> figure that I should give is 4416. I am not able to proceed beyond this
> point. A friend of mine said that becoz I have a 20 GB hardisk...the linux
> cannot write beyond certain sector or some such stuff....
> Please help!!

It will depend both on the version of Lilo that will be used and how
recent your BIOS is, and I don't remember which combination of both is
advisable.  If you make a 10MB /boot partition at the front of the drive
after swap space you should be fine (though I would suggest dropping to
a prompt and running fdisk, I've had issues with RH's partition tools in
the past).

Brian J. Conway
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