good partitioning program needed

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi,
The largest disk I had my hands on is an 80 gb disk.  I have used fdisk on 
that without any problems.
That was the fdisk provided with fedora 2, but I would be surprized if 
fdisk does not support big disks.
Does the linux kernel driver pick up the correct disk size?
I once had problems with an old bios that messed up disksize detection. 
This was long ago, but i recall that I had to provide some kernel 
parameter to tell linux to not rely on the bios, but rather do its own 
detection.
the current fdisk version I have is 2.12a on the one machine and 2.12r on 
the other.
Regards, Willem

  On Tue, 30 May 2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:

> Hello!
>
> My fdisk can only take about 50 gigabyte of my hard drive.
>
> Don't know really why.
>
> What version of fdisk are you using?
> Could you e-mail it please?
>
> /Kristoffer
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willem van der Walt" <wvdwalt at csir.co.za>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 9:10 AM
> Subject: Re: good partitioning program needed
>
>
>> I suggest you first install 98 and just make sure that you tell it to only 
>> use the first lets say 100 gb.
>> Then just install fedora and you could even let it do its own thing.
>> I would use fdisk.  Never had a problem with that.
>> Regards, Willem
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, 30 May 2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello!
>>> 
>>> I need a good program to partition my harddrive.
>>> I've gotten a 200 gb harddrive, and I want to install windows 98 and linux 
>>> on the same computer.
>>> 
>>> I'm using fedora core 3.
>>> So, what partitioning tools are good?
>>> 
>>> I've tried disk druid, but it doesn't seem very accesible o me.
>>> 
>>> Since I plan to install win 98 first I don't have linux at all, so I think 
>>> that I'll have to do with some dos or windows based program.
>>> 
>>> Also, When installing fedora core 3 partition errors are much more common 
>>> than when using fedora 2.
>>> 
>>> Have any of you noticed this?
>>> 
>>> /Kristoffer
>>> 
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