Anyone running a "newer" Gateway or Dell may have problems patitioning the
h/d...They both have hidden partitions that contain the o/s. as far as I know there
is no easy way around it...may have to check with the mfr. on this...I know for a
fact that Dell uses hidden parts...(~500 meg) on their drives...
Regards, Don
Richard Bonebrake wrote:
> I ran into the same thing on mine. It was the size of my win98
> partition. Set your first partition down to about 7.5 gigs and the
> others will install. You need to have your boot partition in the first
> 1023 cylinders, under 8 gigs.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > First I'll state my current system configuration:
> >
> > Gateway 700MHz PIII, 192MB PC100, IBM DeskStar 27.4GB running on Promise PCI
> > ATA/66 Controller Card, 32MB nVidia GeForce 256, Soundblaster Live!
> >
> > I am currently running into two problems during installation of Mandrake 7.0.
> >
> > The First: After partitioning my drive using Partition Magic to a 4.084GB
> > partition for Linux, I try to install BootMagic. The intallation within
> > Windows gives me an error message to the effect of: BootMagic Installation
> > cannot complete because: 1. There is no FAT16 or FAT32 partition available
> > under the 1024 cylinder or, 2. BootMagic is already installed on a hidden
> > partition. Any ideas?
> >
> > The Second, more important problem: When running the DrakX installation
> > utillity from CD-ROM I get to the drive mounting point, only to find that
> > Linux is not recognizing my drive (I suspect this is because my hdd is
> > running from the ATA/66 Controller) I have tried all the drivers listed and
> > none of them will work. Also I found some instructions geared for Red Hat 6.1
> > where you enter "text" at the boot: prompt and make changes manually.
> > Mandrake 7 gives me the message, unable to locate kernel image "text".
> >
> > Is anyone willing to give me detailed instructions on how to fix this? I
> > have never even seen Linux running except for screenshots, so please explain
> > in plain terms.
> >
> > Thanks very much!
> >
> > Steve Gillson
> > "DJ Phrenzy"
