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850M disk problems



Hi,

I have troubles with a new hard disk I bought. 

The disk is 850M but since my DOS couldn't recognize it a Disk Manager was 
installed on it. The disk was partitioned (using the Disk Manager) to 250M and
600M.

When I've tried to install Linux I've ran fdisk and when using the print option
I got the following result (only the first partition exist as DOS since I used
DOS's fdisk to erase the second one) :

device     boot   begin    start   end    blocks    Id  system
/dev/hda1   *       1        1     1653   833111+   54    Unknown

Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(628,15,63) logical=(1652,15,63)

Partition 1 does not start on cylinder boundary:
phys=(0,0,2) should be (0,1,1)



My questions are:

1. Can I do something to use the 600M for Linux ? 

2. the fdisk I'm using is from distribution of about 8 months ago - can a newer
   fdisk handle the Disk Manager ?

3. If I don't use the Disk Manager - does DOS will use really only 250M (for 
   the first partition) and then I can use the rest from Linux, or the 250M 
   will be spread on more disk space than this?



Thanks in advance,

Ilan Finci
ifinci@cs.huji.ac.il