Completely new to Linux, decided to swap from Windws because of cost (I'm a student), and also the reputed reliability of Linux - can't tell you how many times I’ve reinstalled WinME, and the number of other errors I’ve had... ~grrrr~

But I’ve hit my first hurdle with Linux... trying to install Linux Red Hat 7.1 along side WinME (keeping Windows until I’m comfortable with Linux)... dual boot

PC Specs: PIII ATX Motherboard, Intel PIII 1GHz CPU, 768MB SDRAM, 60GB ATA-100 EIDE HDD, Floppy, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, 250MB Zip, MS Intellimouse, MS Internet Keyboard, Conexant PCI 56K modem, 1530V NEC TFT monitor, 64MB Gforce2 MX Graphics card, Creative SBLive 1023 Sound card + speakers, Epson printer, and the sodding WinME. All very nice except the blasted O/S.

Currently WinME is on a 20GB Primary partition. So i have 40GB (ridiculous size huh?!) to play with...

When I try to install RH, the installation program says automatic partitioning failed so have to use Disk Druid... when I try to create the /boot partition I get this error back:

There are currently unallocated partition(s) present in the list of requested partitions. The unallocated partition(s) are shown below, along with the reasons they were not allocated:

/boot Boot partition > 1024 Cylinders

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Please, please help me!!

Ahh come on.. you never even tried did you?? Don't want to sound nasty, cos this is a kind site, but you really should try to find the answers yourself a little bit first... it gets very tedious anserwing the same 4 questions day after day

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I do not think Redhat v7.1 is subject to the 1024 cylinder limit.

Its more likely that you are not using Disk Druid properly. Please give us more info about the partitions that are currently on your disk, and exactly what partitions you are trying to create.

If this system already had WinME on it.. do you have any unpartitioned space? Or are you trying to create a linux partition on space that is already partitioned for Windows?

rh71 does have the limit, it uses lilo 21.3.

Well, then they regressed after Redhat 7.0

I have a laptop with RH v7.0 w/2.2.16-22 and WinME dual booting... my first Linux partition begins at cylinder 1372 and contains all of my boot files. Its using lilo-21.4.4-10 that came with it.

Also, according to ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linu...6/RedHat/RPMS/
Redhat v7.1 uses lilo-21.4.4-13.i386.rpm

Try adding 'lba32' to the lilo.conf file. It's yummy.