> >  What is a problem for me is the
> > hard disk:  if I am greeted with something like setting my disk's
> > geometry, (I have a Seagate Barracuda 40GB HDD) what do I do, in terms
> > of cylinders, heads, tracks and sectors?
> 
> Something like "accept what BIOS thinks" should work in most cases. I had only
> one machine so far not booting afterwards.

The values reported can be wrong, the code in fdisk that works them
out is buggy.  The values you want are almost certainly:
	sectors = 63, heads = 255, cylinders = 1023
(some bioses need heads = 256).

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk