[newbie] An error occurred..no available partitions

2000-06-25 Thread Tony Coors
I am installing Linux on a Pentium 75MHz system that has a western digital 640 MB hard drive. The only thing I have done is create 1 partition of 640 MB size on the hard drive. I load driver support for the CD-ROM(48x ide cd-rom) then begin installation by inserting my boot floppy and start the

Re: [newbie] An error occurred..no available partitions

2000-06-25 Thread Charles A Edwards
Tony Delete all the partitions and leave the drive as free space then let the installation program set the partitions. Charles - Original Message - From: "Tony Coors" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 5:36 PM Subject: [newbie] An erro

[newbie] An error occurred..no available partitions

2000-06-25 Thread Tony Coors
I have a Maxtor 540MB drive connected to ide1 as master and a western digital 640MB drive connected to ide2 as master. I set up the primary partition on the Maxtor for 10MB and made the second partition 530MB. I set up a primary partition on the western digital drive for 640MB. I get the