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Nathan Nourse wrote:

> 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?

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