Michael,
You may want to try the expert install and do the partitioning manually
instead of letting the software do it. It sounds like there's something
about your hardware that the program doesn't like. doing the partitioning
isn't really difficult. It just looks a little scarey at first.
O..and one more tip. What ever you do DON'T put your linux partitions
behind a DOS partition. That is if you want to keep your Linux system any
length of time. Linux belongs on it's own partitions.
--
Mark
Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle...
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Surprisingly on Tue, 31 Oct 2000 Michael H. Bracey had this to say!
> I'm booting from the CD-ROM to make a first install of 7.2 on a 27.9G IDE
> HD with only the existing windows partition. Everything seems to go fine
> until I hit the confirming screen which requires an OK to go ahead with
> the partitioning process. But as soon as this dialog box pops up,
> everything freezes up. I can't even scroll down, cancel, or go back to a
> previous install step. My only recourse is to reboot. Nothing seems to
> be harmed, as I can reboot to the CD to try again or reboot to the HD and
> get W98 back just fine. Why can't I partition?
>
> (I did scandisk and defrag as recommended.)
>
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Michael
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