Don Bonomini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey everyone! Someone... HELP! I luved linux so much, i recommened it to a friend, and i went to install it for him. ok, so we defragmented, and ran fips to "safely" partition the drive. He has a 12 gig hard drive, and i set up the partitions as 10 gig for windows, and 1.1 gig for linux. Ok... partitioned fine. I ran the Linux install. Then Disk Druid. I delete the 1.1 gig partition we jus made to free up the space for the Linux partitions, and for some reason, when i try and create the root, /, partiton, it gives me the error, The bootable partition doesnt have enuff free space. It lets me creat any other partition i want, like /usr, or the swap partiton, but jus not the / partition. Ive read somewhere that the first (bootable) partition, which wuld be windoze of course, has to be within the first 1024 cylenders of the drive? Is this true? If it is... is there anyway to install and run a dual-boot system giving 10 gigs to win and 1.1 to linux? Please help! I dont wannt my friend to sue me for messin his computer up!!! (No offense dave, if ur readin this :-) Well, thanks in advance! See yall later! ======================================================= My understanding is that if you install Linux out past the 8 GB mark, Lilo will not be able to boot into Linux (nature of the beast I believe..) Why leave so much room for windows??? Leave him 6 GB for Windows and the rest for Linux. With only a GB for Linux, there's not much room for him to install some of the better programs to give it a really fair trial v. Win 9x or NT. Mike ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
