I wanted to shrink the size of the slice down to the amount that I'm actually using. The first problem is that fdisk thought that my drive geomentry was 3050 cyl, 11 heads, 125 sec/head. I told it otherwise. Then I go to redefine slice 0. I tell it the size should be 1228800. It asks if I want to speicfy the beginning and end. I say "no". It fills in 10 cyl, 4 heads, 20 sec! Next round, I say yes and fill in 1034 cyl, 3 heads, 84 sec. It displays 10-4-20! (Actaully, there were a few more rounds in there, and on some of them it accepted what I wanted for and ending cyl)
State Changed From-To: open->closed Fdisk is regulated by the stupidity of the on-board BIOS, which limits you to 1024 cylinders (or modulo 1024 cylinders). Create a small slice for your root partition only. Create a second slice containing the rest of the disk, and go from there.