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Re: [LI]more than 1023 sectors



Hello Mitesh
  Try fdisk /mbr
It will rewrite your master boot record.
SCO makes come changes to yuor MBR which are not easy to get rid of.
And if that doesn't work go to bios settings
and do low level foemat on your HDD

Ashish


----- Original Message ----- 

> hello friends.
> here is the interesting problem.
> in my computer i have installed a sco-unix.
> after that i have removed it and try to install
> linux over there.
> but at the time of partition it will give an error
> that more than 1023 sectors and lilo will give an
> error at the time of bootup 
> and this thing happens.
> i have also format diskette with dos-fdisk.
> but the position is still as it is.
> do you have any solution to this problem?
> - mitesh
> 
> 
> --- Soumyanath Chatterjee <soumya_chatt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Sharad Joshi <sharadj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> > 
> > > But the point is, if anyone has physical access to
> > the machine, what stops
> > > him/her from booting it with a boot floppy and
> > then cribbing?
> > >
> > Nope! I can disable floppy drive in my CMOS setup.
> > 
> > The actual problem is - as root U have access
> > complete machine, including
> > internet access password etc. How do I stop somebody
> > from gaining access to
> > it.
> >
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