Re: Problems

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

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Let LINUX Installatio set up the file system.  Use Disk Druid and make only
a swap partition and a root partition.  DD Does the rest in the
installation.
mjr <mjr@byteme.com> wrote in message
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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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