I installed Windows ME on C: drive which has 15GB out of total 19GB, and I was installing RH7.1 on remaining 4GB, but installation kept showing error message like cylinder something. Is it because 4GB of free space on hard drive is not enough to install RedHat 7.1. How much free space do i need to have to install RedHat 7.1?

I need more details . did you make a big partition for Linux with fdisk before you put on me? you should have. I think you need to make your partitions sized correctly too. go 30 meg /boot, 1.5g for /, 200meg /swap, 500mg for /home . put lilo on your mbr. You can for sure install rh, Mandrake 7.0 (reccomended) beautifully on 1 gig. Best on 1.5 gig (partition for reverything neededd for Linux) or more. Send cheapbytes a $10 check and a week later you get it usmail. ther e is a program that is called fips that makes a partition -trying to save your mswin install. it -but I never used it. It is a bit hard to under stand. if you have dsl, try dragon linux - full install 300mb onto windows as a program. or Run fdisk. ruin your win install if you have to. Linux is worth it. -1 make two partitions , 2 install win on the 1st part. 3 install linux on the 2nt part. Md 7.0, 7.1, auto alocate partitions, (put /boot on first part of Linux partition if you don't "auto allocate" partitions with the Mandrake installation utility, as your installing). put lilo on mbr. Make and test your boot disk . have major fun and great satisfaction with Linux. That's it.

OK, I had the same problem. The message probably said the boot sector must not reside in cylinders > 1024, right? If so, you need to reduce the size of your winME partition to 10/11 GB.