On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:29:27AM -0800, Tom Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:54:48PM +0000, obarlow@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > I'm attempting to install fedora core 1 on my system. It doesn't > > recognize the full size of my 120G hard drive. Other linux > > distributions are able to recognize it. Is there a module I need to > > load for fedora to recognize the full hard drive? > > I suspect that the BIOS does not present the full drive > to the system at boot time. > > Once the install disk had booted you should be able to partion the > disk and use it all. Automatic partioning should work but I made mine > by hand the way I did because I was lazy. > > Since your BIOS apparently does not see all the disk make your FIRST > partion "/boot" and things should be fine. > > Something like this: > $ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda3 111250496 54009080 51590152 52% / > /dev/hda1 101089 28767 67103 31% /boot > > $ grep swap /etc/fstab > /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > I made my /boot filesystem partion with a size of 1GB on this 120GB > disk. I now have five kernel versions in it so I suspect it was a > little bigger than it needed to be. In an off line communication this was a disk jumper (hardware) issue. I guess I need to add check jumpers in with my check BIOS setting advice. -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch48-at-sbcglobal-dot-net
