~> I have a 3.2 GB hard drive and 16-bit addressing, so it's partitioned ~> into a C drive of about 2 GB and a D drive for the rest of the space. ~> I'd like to keep Windows 95 on the C drive while I work on installing ~> Linux on D. ~> ~> >From reading the installation instructions it sounded like I should ~> create a Swap partition within "D." So I created a system floppy with ~> the FIPS directory on it. Upon execution it displayed the partition ~> table showing partition 1 consisting of 2047 MB and partition 2 ~> consisting of 1047 MB. It asked which partition to split, and I chose ~> "2." The resulting error message said: "Can't split extended ~> partitions. FIPS can not yet split extended DOS partitions."
I'm not sure if there's something I'm misunderstanding here... you already have your HDD partitioned into two, and you have windoze installed into it (which you want to keep). If that's correct, I can't see what you need fips for (unless you want to reclaim some space from your first partition). All you have to do is move any data from d: to c:, leaving thus the second partition empty, and then install Linux in the second partition. The Linux setup will take you through the right steps (including repartitioning the second drive to create both Linux swap part. and Linux native part.) Regards Horacio -- Claves - GnuPG/PGP - Keys : http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver o/or Envía un mensaje vacío a [EMAIL PROTECTED] con la línea de asunto: Send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject line: Tipo de Clave/Key Type Asunto:/Subject: DSA/ElGamal fetch dsa/elgamal DSS/Diffie-Hellman fetch dh/dss RSA fetch rsa