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hi i was directed to this mailing list to get an answer to this question: i've got a thinkpad 755c with 20MB ram and a 540 MB harddrive. i'd like to put linux on the machine. I've got the "bare" boot disk and "color" root disk for linux 3.0.0. i can get the machine to boot up from the floppy usint the ramdisk floppy=thinkpad option, but when i run fdisk to partition the rest of the drive for linux and swap, the fdisk program complains that the number of cylinders is 1047 which is larger than 1024. printing the partion table lists the drive as 16 heads, 63 sectors, and 1047 cylinders...i don't know if this is true and I can't find this information using dos's fdisk.. do you know the correct geometry for this drive and if there's any other "unique" things i need to know to get linux and Xfree86 up and running? thank you -_- duane