On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Krulo wrote:
my problem is this:
after I boot with the disk7 to the 7.2 instalatio I get this really cool screen with
the options F1 or Enter. After choosing "Enter" he detects the cdrom, initializes it
and enters the setup process (another cool screen). he asks the language, the
expert/costum thing and then detects the keyboard, the mouse, etc. then asks me to
choose what type of partition do I want: if I want to delet windows, if I want to use
the free space in the windows partition, or the expert. I choose "use free space" and
then I does this:
"Computing windows file system bounds"
he wait here a while and then a window appears saying some like "it's advisable to
run scandisk and scanreg (opt) before entering this stage. press OK when ready"
and there are 2 buttons: "OK" and "Cancel". But when I try to click on any of them
it doest work! the mouse works but it's not possible to click on any button! even in
the "screen change" buttons... crtl+alt+del doesn't work to... I already tried to
make a scandisk, a scanreg, the 2 types of scandisk, in DOS, in windows... and it
keeps crashing in the same stage... can U help me? I tried to make the partitions in
the "expert" mode but if I try to make any other he deletes the windows one...
help...?
thx
Can you give a little more info? HD size, how many other partitions,
etcIn my case, when I get to the part that asks me if I want to use
the free space, blah blah, I click the Expert button, and since I have a
HD thats plenty big enough (17 gig) for me to shrink Winbitesmyass down
considerably (since I use Linux as my primary OS anyways), I then click on
the Windows partition (because clicking on expert brought me to DiskDrake,
which allows you to resize and partition your HD), make it smaller (about
5 gig), then I click on the remaining free space (about 11 left over, of
course), and then I click auto-allocate. DiskDrake then sets up the Linux
partitioning, and away I go. Maybe that will work for you...either way,
click expert and just take a look without actually doing anything - youre
safe just looking things over, getting your bearings.
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peace,
Rog
http://www.slammingrooves.com
Registered Linux user #190719
