OSIN1024 - FDISK ERROR ON LARGE HARD DISKS DURING INSTALLATION OF
           OS/2 2.1 AND OS/2 2.11
01/29/96

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         FDISK Error on Large Hard Disks during Installation of
                       OS/2 2.1 and OS/2 2.11
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Please Read Entire Document for Full Explanation of Procedures
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DESCRIPTION

When installing OS/2 2.1 or OS/2 2.11 on systems with hard disks 
greater that 1 GB, an FDISK error is received or you cannot start from 
installation diskettes.

RESOLUTION

OS/2 does not support startable partitions greater than 1024 cylinders. 
This is a hardware limitation and is true of DOS and OS/2, whether a 
high performance file system (HPFS) or a file allocation table (FAT) 
file system.

Define the startup-partition size to be within the first 1024 cylinders:

1. Check the documentation for the hard disk and see how many MB are in
   the first 1024 cylinders.

2. Make sure that any startable partition is created at the beginning
   of free space and is within the size limitation.

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