Re: I CAN'T INSTALL

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From: Nathan Nourse
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 00:00

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I hate to tell you this Chris, but you are not going to have a choice but to
repartition.  In Linux you must have a root "/" partition and a swap partition
and you do not seem to have enough space to handle linux and 98 at the same time
with your current setup. Sorry.
Been there, Nate

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?

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From: Nathan Nourse <ncnourse@stratos.com>
Subject: Re: I CAN'T INSTALL
Date: 1998/12/28
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