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The DOS environment access normally the HD but i'm unable to
install Linux.

I've tried the UMSDOS installation (copied from the old hard disk)
but the Linux boot program is unable to mount the root file system
from the partition /dev/hda1  (480M) where the software is installed
(basically the c:\linux directory).

Then i've tried to install Linux in the free partition but, because
of Ontrack manager driver, the fdisk doesn't see the partitions
(the geometry of the hd is OK).

For what i've understootd from the documentation of the Ontrack
managere the 6.0x is NOT compatible with Linux: they say that the
new 7.0 version will be compatibile with other OS than DOS.
So at the moment i've got 2 solutions: install  only the DOS without
Linux (unthinkable) or install Linux without DOS (better but not good).
There's probably a third way: upgrade the BIOS or the controller but
i let this option as a last effort.

Does anybody have any suggestion?

Thanx a lot for Your help.

RedHat 2.1 includes a 1.3.30 bootdisk image that will work for you.
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For Linux IDE (big/many) help, see:  /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/README.ide
For latest Linux kernels: ftp.cs.helsinki.fi:/pub/Software/Linux/Kernel/v1.[23]

Throw away the disk mangler.

Linux doesn't need it at all and will manage large disk luckily by
itself.

jue
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I'm using DM 6.03c w/ Linux and Win95.  I don't think it makes a
difference when whichever is installed... but be ready for the boot
sector to be corrupted whenever you reconfig LILO (to, say, install a new
kernel).  In those cases, have both a dos and a linux boot disk.  Reboot,
you probably won't be able to reload either OS.  Boot w/ the DOS disk,
FDISK the machine three or so times (I don't have an explanation why it
needs to be done multiple times...), then boot the linux disk and redo
lilo.  Someway, somehow, this seems to work for me.  Go figure.

Make sure that LILO loads *before* DM does.  Linux kernels >1.3.11(?)
support DMed partitions.

If anyone knows an elegant solution, please adivse!!!

Good luck!
Jeff