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From: Andrew Schulman
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:00

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> 22 gig hard-drive
> 
> Hard-drive configuration:
> C: fat32 2gigs
> D: fat32 17+ gigs
> Ext2 Linux native (2 gigs)
> Linux swap (128mb)
> 
> Here's what's happening:
> 
> (Tried installing RedHat 6.1 and Mandrake -I think 6.0)
> Problem 1:
> At the end of the Linux installation process when it tries to write the LILO
> info into the master boot sector I get an error message that says "Error
> writing to boot sector". I also tried writing it to the Linux area as well
> and I get the same message. - bombed installation

Try switching your 2nd and 3rd partitions.  Any partition you want to
boot from has to be contained within the first 1024 cylinders of your
drive, or almost certainly the first 8.4 GB.  If you change your
partition arrangement to

C: 2G
ext2 2G 
D: 17G
Linux swap 128M

that will probably solve your problem.  Unfortunately that means you
have to reinstall everything in the 2nd and 3rd partitions-- sorry.

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From: Andrew Schulman <rockett@gtcinternet.com>
Subject: Re: Experienced Linux users please take  look...
Date: 2000/02/21
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