Partitioning my drive, wierd problem...

[Icebergoner]

I have a 4g Western Digital that I want to use to install RedHat 8. Now I want to repartion and format my drive do be one whole drive again. All 4g's. But fdisk tells me that the maximum space I have available to partition is 2047Mb (50%)

I'm far from knew to computers and I have ran across this before but forgot the solution.

The bios is not limiting the available space, and I can make on Primary DOS Partition with one half and an Extended DOS partition with the other and use all 4g's.

Could it be because I had slackware on it earlier and the second half of the drive might be Type Linux Native?

Thanks for all your help cause I'm stumped on how to go about getting around this and getting on with my project.

 

[Icebergoner]

Also the Volume Label is blank. I'm not positive as to if this affects the drive or not but I found that kind of odd. I'm not even sure what value would go there.

 

[wolluf]

Have you removed all non-dos partitions? Are you using large disk support (ie, FAT32) - FAT has a max of 2GB?

 

[Icebergoner]

I got around it. I just deleted all the partitions and installed RedHat from there. Honestly didn't think it would work but of course it did. Thanks for the help. Now its off to the linux forum to bother them...