[linux-help] Re: Seeing past 2GB on a 7GB drive
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John Reinke wrote:
>
> A friend of mine is trying to install Mandrake onto a 7 GB Maxtor
> hard drive. It sees the entire drive when using fdisk and such, but
> when he uses the Mandrake installer, it never sees beyond 2GB.
>
> Windows NT is able to see the whole drive.
Is NT presently on this drive?
Is the drive going to be used for Windows/NT and Mandrake (dual-boot)?
Is 5GB of drive space already being "claimed" by Windows/NT. If so, this
explains why Mandrake won't touch it. FIPS is one way to shrink Windows
partitions so there is room for Linux. (Don't know if it works w/ NT.) If
the drive is empty, use Linux fdisk to make partitions of the desired
size. Mandrake will find them during the install, and you can assign them
as you wish - /, home, etc.
--joh
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