Yes it does. The boot partition has to be below 8 gig. To solve this, just make a 16 meg partition before the Win partition with partition magic. Set this up as /boot when you install. Then set up your / (root) partition to be the other ext2 partition you made. The install will put everything it needs into /boot and the rest into your other partition. If you are using boot magic to select your OS, then tell lilo to install on the 16 meg partition, not the MBR. Tell boot magic to boot the 16 meg partition for linux. You can remove the entry for win/dos in lilo, since you don't need it with boot magic. Jared Mahoney wrote: > > I have Partition Magic installed, and have created a linux swap and ext2 > partition. Does the location of these partitions matter whether or not > the Mandrake installation program will be able to find them? I am not > sure if this is a problem with the install not being able to detect the > drive or being able to see the partition on which to install. > > Jared > > On 4 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi > > (1)Linux often has problems with partition sizes greater > > than 8 gigabytes. It is also fussy about where the LILO is > > placed (the 1024 cylinders thing). > > (2) Mandrake Software has admitted that DiskDrake does not > > yet work as it should. > > > > To solve a similar problem I used Partition Magic 4.01, > > which allowed me to graphically, non-destructively, shrink > > Windows partitions and create Linux native partitions in the > > resulting free space. This is a commercial product and > > there may be free alternatives available but I have no > > personal experience of them. > > Regards, > > Ron > > > > > > Quoting Jared Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > I just tried installing Mandrake 7.0 for the first time > > last night. I > > > have one 27GB partioned all in one FAT32 for 98. The new > > graphical setup > > > worked very nicely until it said it couldn't find any > > valid devices to > > > create filesystems on. Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Many thanks in > > > advance! > > > > > > Jared > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------n-i-c-.-f-i > > Internet -ilman kuluja! Liity heti (http://www.nic.fi/) > >
