[lug] Repartitioning to save Winders ME

[Scott A. Herod]

We're tying to get RH 6.2 on it.  Currently, fdisk won't let us create
the boot partition.  It looks like 6.2 has a slightly older version of
the util-linux package that contains fdisk than 7.0.   But, I don't
know how we would use it.  Any suggestions?  Is it necessary to get 7.0?
It also appears that 7.0 has a newer version of lilo but since they
completely changed the numbering scheme I'm not sure.

Thanks,

Scott

Jeff Howell wrote:
> 
> The 1024 limit is no longer an issue with the newer versions of Lilo.
> just have to make sure "lba32" is in your /etc/lilo.conf file.
> 
> Scott A. Herod wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to help someone repartition a drive and save the existing
> > version of Winders ME (which of course came with a single partition
> > of less than half the drive but extending beyond the 1024 boundary).
> > Is there anyway get Linux to accept a /boot beyond the 1024 limit
> > or does anyone know a way to shrink the existing ME partition.
> >
> > (Despite Partition Magic's claim, it doesn't work with ME.  Fortunately
> > the $69 didn't come from my pocket.)