Thanks to everybody for their responses...
For the record what I had to do was use 7.0 installation CD to setup how I
wanted the drive partitioned then exited the installation after that step
and rebooted with the 7.1 CD and everything worked from there.
I noticed that using auto-allocate on 7.1 it put the swap partition at the
front of the disk, however 7.0 put the swap in the middle with the /boot
partion in the front. This might have been the problem as I think about it
more. Does the /boot parition have to be located at the first physical part
of the drive?
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 9:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing 7.1 hangs at formatting boot partition
I had the same problem when I tried to do an upgrade. I solved the
problem by installing on a second hard drive, going to diskdrake on the
second hd, formatting the first hd as one partition. Once that was done
I went back to the first hd and did a clean install. Did not use the hd
optimizations... repeat, did not use the optimizations. Every thing went
just hunky dory. This is one solution if you have the space on a second
hd. Otherwise, I am at a loss to help. Dennis
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Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842
