[Tfug] Dual boot

Paul Scott tfug@tfug.org
Wed Jun 5 09:53:02 2002


Keith Smith wrote:
> While in fdisk it reports to me the following:
> 
> 255 heads 63 sectors 1836 cylinders
> units=cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes.
> 
> I have a 15G HD.
> 
> How does one use this info to get to 15G ?

255 * 63 * 1836 * 512 =  15101614080 bytes

15101614080 / (1024 * 1024 * 1024) = 14.06 GB

Paul Scott