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 jozien@comcast.net to All 
 partition does not end on cylinder bound 
 06 Mar 07 01:40:54 
 
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I just purchased a new Toshiba Satellite A135-4437 and want to install
ubuntu

  # fdisk -l   gives the error:

"partition does not end on cylinder boundary"

Does this mean I can't partition the drive and install ubuntu?

Please help

jozien
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