On Mar 4, 2012 1:13 AM, "Pandu Poluan" <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
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> On Mar 4, 2012 12:54 AM, "Grant" <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> > I enabled some more kernel options under USB Network Adapters and it's
> > working now.  The install is about done but there were a few
> > peculiarities:
> >
> > 1. fdisk won't let me specify a start block before 2048 even though I
> > deleted all partitions.
> >
>
> That's normal. It's a long story, but Windows Vista and Windows 7 expects
the first partition to start at sector 2048.
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> You can force a lower number by toggling "DOS compatibility"; this should
let you start the first partition as low as sector 63.
>
> HOWEVER, make sure that all partitions begin at multiples of 8 (e.g., 64,
72, 80, and so on); this will save you a lot of grief if it happens that
the hard disk you're using has 4KiB-sectors. [1]
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[1] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-4kb-sector-disks/

Rgds,