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Contrare, I do not think I was leading him astry as not to long ago I was in his shoes
and had to learn the hard way.  Slackware may allow you to install to a 98 partition;
however, that was not his question and to much information can be as unhelpful as none
sometimes.  I do hope I helped Chris as I have come to love using Linux even though it
took a while in the beginning.  Sorry if I was not clear, but I could have used that
advise myself a year ago and thought it would help.

nads@bleh.org wrote:

> > Chris Ververidis wrote:
> >
> > > Altough i tried with all the conventional methods i can't install
> > > Red Hat Linux 5.0 on my PC without destroying my primary Win98
> > > partition.
> > > I have a 2,1GB Maxtor HD with 2 partitions on it.Primary (active):1,8GB and
> > > extended 0,2GB.When trying to make the partitions i have this error:"You
> > > must assign a root partition to a linux native partition for install to
> > > procede".Why?
> > > What can i do to install correctly Linux without repartition all of my disk?
>
> Dude, dont lead people astray here, you can install Linux without partitioning. You
> just can't install RedHat without partitioning. I wish more distributions would
> include umsdos support, but the only one I know of is slackware. Slackware allows
> you to install Linux on a windows98 partition, it will be installed into the Linux
> directory. Instead of creating a swap partition, you create a swap file (slower).
> Of course this flexibility does come with some caveats, umsdos is far less stable
> and somewhat more slower than traditional ext2fs. However, I think umsdos makes a
> great option for those who want to actually try Linux out on their system before
> going through the mess of repartitioning. Another cool quick linux distro is
> zipslack, which you just uncompress (can even fit on a zip disk) and boot right
> into. The one made by the guys over tha LinuxPPC even has X included.
>
>  Personally I think redhat (which from my experience, is definetely the easist
> distribution to install/use) should either include umsdos support in 6.0 (w/a
> warning), need to hack disk druid so it can resize partition (copy some fips code),
> or include a limmited version of PQ Magic (like beos).
>
> -- Nadeem