Hi everyone. Does anyone know at which usergroup or mailinglist I can get an answer to the problem quoted hereunder - I use a boxed set MD 8.0 and have posted a request for assisteance here and with Mandrake Support (off their website) but get no reply at all. Hi I am trying to install MD 8.0 dualboot on hdb with an existing W2k installation on hda. My system’s information is at the bottom hereof. I have done some earlier installations with the same set of disks, also dual boot w2k on two different HDs to test and play with Linux before installing it for use on my work computer. All those installations have gone smoothly. This time, after selecting the language, the installation skipped all other installation steps to go directly to partitioning the HD. I select hdb, deleted all existing partitions and selected auto allocate. Next a dialogue box comes up with just: “ An error occurred, swap area needs to be.” And “OK”. Just that. Well what does the swap area need to be...? I tried to change that, but it only allowed me to take swap from 243 to 244Mb even if I made /home much smaller, i.e. there is enough space for swap to be changed up or down in size. And this is where the installation process stops, going back to the start of the partitioning process, etc. Any clues? TIA Lex. CPU: Athlone 1GHz Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Mainboard, GA-7ZM RAM: 500 and whatever Megs Acer DVD HP CD Writer 3900 series Graphics card: ASUS AGP-V300C Series Acer 77c Screen; USB Wheelmouse; 3Com US Robotics Voice Fax Modem 56K Soundblaster Live Soundcard Windows 2K on hda 27Gig hdb empty (previously had w2k on) 3.9Gig And o yes, there’s a SCSI card for the HP Scanjet scanner and a HP Laserjet printer attached too.
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