asus mobo, fc5, nvidia chipset, and fixing hd

[tyche]

recently had a friend give me his comp, and i tried to install 
fc5 x86_64 on it. the first problem i encountered was the 
hard drive had (according to anaconda) was that it had more 
than 1024 cylinders on it, 75000+ on a 40gb wd hd.

got to a text screen, used fdisk x c 1024 w and rebooted the 
machine. still have the 75000 or so cylinders.

did some calling and found that the mobo had an nvidia chipset 
on it. it would appear that to install fc5 on this particular 
board, i have to build a driver disk with the proprietary 
nvidia drivers on it.

that i have no idea how to do.

also have to get the hd back to 1024 cylinders. any help will 
be very gratefully appreciated.

tia

tyche

asus mobo: k8n
nvidia chipset: NVIDIA nForce3 250
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Win9x

A 32 bit extention
to a 16 bit patch
for a 8 bit operating system
on a 4 bit machine
by a 2 bit company
that cant stand 1 bit of competition