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Hi,
Thanks for the advice. I did as you recommended except that I created a
500MB Minix partition. so the partition table turns out to be as follows:

Device 	             cyl  head  sec  cyl  head  sec  base  size      Kb
/dev/hd0                             875  255   63
                      0     0    0   522  42    30     0   8388607 4194303

Num  Sort  Type	
1*   hd1   0B	      0     1    0   522  254   62     63  8401932 4200966
2    hd2   81 Minix   523   0    0   585  254   62 8401995 1012095  506047
3    hd3   00 None    0     0    0    0    0    -1     0      0       0
4    hd4   00 None    0     0    0    0    0    -1     0      0       0
 

I have a few questions about this:

1. if the second row of numbers describes my win95 partition which is also
partition 1, wouldn't the information corresponding to hd1 be superfluous
and why do discrepancies, albeit small, exist between the 2 sets of
numbers that supposedly describe the same partition?

2. during installation we were advised that numbers that were highlighted
in grey has to be taken care of. The numbers under 'Size' and 'Kb' heading
for hd1 and hd2 were highlighted. I do not know the reason why but I
suspect it was because their sum (and the individual numbers themselves as
in the case of hd1) exceeded that in the 2nd row above. Does anyone have
an explanation for why it is highlighted and what I can do about it??

3. After being prompted that the Root and /usr subpartition are about to
be created on /dev/hd2 and after hitting 'enter', I got this error msg:

installboot: unexpected EOF on /dev/hd2

Does anyone know what this mean and what I can do about it??

Installation could not continue further beyond this point. Any help would
be appreciated:)

Thanks in advance.

yiwei    

On 3 Jun 2000 bmarcum@iglou.com wrote:

>    >Hi,
>    >When I was using part to partition my hard disk, and when I did a
>    >read on my hard disk I got this data:
>    >--first-- --geom/last--  --sectors--
>    >Device   cyl  head  sec cyl  head  sec base  size     KB
>    >/dev/hd0   875  255   63
>    >0    0     0  522   42   30    0   8388607   4194303
>    >I am really puzzled by the second row of numbers namely:
>    >522 42 30 0 8388607 4194303
>    >Question:
>    >1. Why is there a difference between the 2 sets of C/H/S numbers i.
>    >e. 875 255 63
>    >and  522 42  30
>    >Which is the one that correctly describes my hard disk??
> The first set of numbers are the maximum CHS numbers for the drive.  The
> three zeros are where the Windows partition begins and the next three
> numbers are where it ends. The last two numbers are the size of the
> partition in sectors and KB. If you want to use the rest of the drive for
> Minix, create a partition from 523 0 0 to 875 255 63.
> 
> Net-Tamer V 1.08X - Test Drive
> 
> 

