Hi all, and thanks to everyone who offered ideas, even though they didn't
fix my problem, it's nice to know people care.
I have solved my partition problem, and thought I'd post the solution as it
may help others. It ended up being very simple to solve.
I used Norton on my win98 and the scan disk utility creates an image file
(of FAT etc) called image.idx that it hides at the end of the c: drive. If
you delete this, and then reboot to install Linux/repartition the process
works perfectly !
I must give credit to the author of FIPS, which I tracked down on the
linux.com site. http://linux.com/firststep/faqs.phtml#sec.2.3 He describes
this in his readme file.
Hope this may help some others, as it certainly saved me a lot of grief,
even though it took me 1 week to find it.
Thanks again
Mike
At 06:26 PM 08/08/2000 +1200, I wrote:
>
>This is a first time install from CD on a Toshiba Satellite 4060. It has a
>single primary DOS/Windows FAT32 partition occupying all of the 4GB disk.
>
>The install goes well in automatic install mode, up to the point where the
>system files are set up. It stops and displays my 4126MB partition and
then
>suggests I reduce it's size. According to the demo on the mandrake site,
it
>should tell me it's going to reconfigure automatically.
>
>I try and resize to say 2200MB, but I get an error message stating
>'adjustEnd go beyond end of device geometry (8594775>8450190) at
>/usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table_raw.pm line 69 This comes
>whatever size I choose. I also cannot use the little arrows to the right
>side and below the resize pop up window. they have no affect. My Windows
>98 is occupying approx 1.8GB of the disk. My disk is clean, error free and
>defragged using NDD, and Speed disk.
>
>I have tried different partition sizes, all with no success. I do not have
>the PnP option in my BIOS, but I did try changing the Device config from
>'Setup by OS' to 'ALL devices, but with no difference.
>
>
>Can anyone help? as I feel it should work. I am obviously missing
>something..
>
>Thanks in advance
>Mike
>New Zealand
>
>
