On Monday 26 Apr 2004 1:37 am, you wrote: > On Sunday 25 April 2004 18:39, Everard Brown wrote: > > That sounds a very likely cause of my problem, but when I try to > > create the Sun disk label ('s' option in fdisk) that is always the > > default. > > > > Can anyone suggest how I might acheive a partitioning scheme which > > would be acceptable to the install program? > > Use "d" to delete sda1 and sda2, and then use "n" to create new ones. > Make sure you use "t" to change the type of the swap partition to type > 82 (Linux Swap).
Yes that cracked it. I made a 100M /boot partition and it seems much happier now ;-) Just have to figure out how to boot from disk by default i.e. turn "boot net", as a default, off. Thanks again, Everard