[QCLUG] Newbie having installation errors

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:29:43PM -0600, Luis Gonzalez wrote:
> This is the specs for the laptop below

> Dell Inspiron 1525
> 160GB TOSHIBA MK1637GSX ATA DEVICE
>  INTEL(R) PENTIUM(R) DUAL CPU T2330 @1.60GHZ
> RAM: 2038MB
> 32 bit Operating System
> Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:36:47PM -0600, Luis Gonzalez wrote:
> Erro Message:
> Failed to create a file system
> The ext3 file system creation in partition #5 of SCSI1 (0.0.0) (sda) failed.

The most likely cause here is that the kernel knows the size of the disk,
but is using an incompatible method to access it that prevents accessing
anything past 137GB.  This may be the result of a BIOS setting.

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