I'm trying to help a friend install Linux on his computer. Unfortunately,
he didn't have the easy luxury of deleting his DOS partition first. He
needs to keep it. So, we tried partition magic. No success. so, we tried
making the rootdisk for the Slackware installation umsdos so we could just
install Linux on the existing partition. When we tried to install it, the
boot disk worked fine, but then right when the login prompt should have
popped up, the system just stopped.
The easy way around this is wait for him to get his old HD from home, which
is a 500 MB one that we can just wipe out and start from scratch on. But,
he wanted it on there now and I can't figure it out.
thoughts?
-Evan-
