On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Ana In�s Pintos wrote:
> I�m trying to install a 4,3 GB in my ACER Computer, 486DX2, 16 MB of
>RAM
> My BIOS recognize it. I create one DOS partition of 1000 MB with DOS
>fdisk.
> Then I format this partition, reboot the computer and it says:
> Abort, Retry or Ignore all the time I try to accesing it.
> Then I would create another Linux partition of 2000 MB and the rest
>for Swap, but first I�m trying to install Win 95 in the first partition.
I'm not sure what's causing your disk access problems, but your post highlights
that it might be time to remind everyone about an important characteristic of a
Linux swap partition. If you have a 4.3GB disk, are allocating 1GB for Win95,
2GB for Linux, and the rest for swap, then you'd be making your swap partition
be 1.3GB big. If a Linux swap partition is larger than 128MB, then the rest of
it is not used. If you really want the whole 1.3GB to be Linux swap, then
you'll have to split it up into a bunch of 128MB Linux swap partitions, and
then take care to list all of them in "/etc/fstab".
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