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Article #1648Problems installing linux
From: fox
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:00
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I am trying to install loinux rh 6.2 on my system and to dual boot with windows98. I am putting Linux on my second unpartioned hard drive thats set up as my slave, i figured i should put linux on that since it is only 3.5 gigs. Disk Druid is not setting up a swap partion on this drive (hdb), even though I have been told it does it automaticly. I dont know how to mount a 64 meg swap partion. When I use fdisk in the Linux Installer i get this error when i select HDB: " The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 6588. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger then 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g LILO) 2) booting and partioning software from other OSs" I am going to be dual booting win98, that is installed on HDA, which i have setup as my primary hdd (its a 10 gig if you need to know), and I want to install linux on my 3.5, which is what I have setup as the slave. I dont think my CD burner and CD ROM are causeing problems. I made sure to blow away my second hard drive in the MS-DOS fdisk. I really dont know what I am doing wrong, cuase I can install a partionless Linux, but I really dont want to, i cant get past disk druid cause i dont have a swap partion setup, and the fdisk doesnt work for me. Should i switch my hdds and make my 3.5 gig the primary hdd and my 10 gig hdd my slave? Any advice would be great, man do i hate being a newbie at time. I swear I am not as stupid as this post sounds, and i am not going to give up cuase i want to get away from windows, real bad. Thanks in advance Sean
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11033e,60e0c08385e97609,start X-Google-Attributes: gid11033e,public From: "fox" <seann@nls.net> Subject: Problems installing linux Date: 2000/05/24 Message-ID: <LxZW4.49$yy.29673@news1.onlynews.com> X-Deja-AN: 626935744 X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Trace: onlyNews customer X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 16:25:31 PDT Newsgroups: ahn.tech.linux