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From: mjr
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 00:00

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Um.

Bought A 5GB HDD for my Linux Laptop.  Installed Win 98 on 1st
partition (2.5GB).  Tried to install RH5.2 on to the second partition.
But when it came to formatting the installation app told me that my /
dir (boot dir) was to big, and would not allow it to be greater than
about 1MB.  This pissed me off, so I tried many other things, unitl I
finally realised that I had a Suse5.2 disk.  I formatted the partiion
wiht that, rebooted and installed RH5.2.  No problem untill it came to
installing LILO.  LILO will not run, due to be having too large a boot
partiion.  I can boot from floppy (I have not tried LOADLIN)but not
from the MBR with LILO.

Any ideas?

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Date: 1999/05/11
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