Re: Please help

["Soumyanath Chatterjee" <soumya_chatt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rudhra Param <rudhrap@xxxxxxxxx> was caught saying

>   I have joined this mailing list just a couple of
> days before. I want to install Linux in my machine. I
> have a 8Gb harddisk of which 6Gb is filled with
> windows partitions. When i wanted to install Linux in
> the last 2Gb, somebody said that linux doesn't work
> well if it is installed after 1024 cylinders. my
> harddisk contains 1048 cylinders.

Welcome !! ;-)

I do not know this 1024 cylinder (2**10) limitation of linux. In my PC I do
not face any such problem. Guru's - any comment.

> how do you create a linux swap partition. do you
> create a primary partition and convert it into swap
> partition. if so, will this be considered as a primary
> partition even after converting it into swap
> partition.

U create a partition - primary or secondary and then declare file system as
swap or linux native. Run fdisk to create partition, use p to see the
partition table rest is self explanatary.


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