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From: Mark Bruhn
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 00:00

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In article <4kdtug$ofd@news.mel.aone.net.au>,
peter.aikins@acslink.aone.net.au (Peter J. Aikins) wrote:
>In article <troopersDp31wL.8o8@netcom.com>, troopers@netcom.com says...
>>
>>help.
>>i'm stuck. i can't install linux.  i put all the disks on my computer. i made
>a
>>scsi boot disk and tried the dos and color root disks.
>>i boot up fine on the boot disk, typing mount, it then asks me for my root
>disk
>>so i put that in and i says to logon as root and then type setup.
>>i type setup and get an error that there's no native linux partition setup. i
>>then wipe my drive, create an empty partition "D" logical drive and try it
>again                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Make it a primary partitiion on your first harddrive and it might work.
Slackware linux setup can't see logical drives on my system, only the extended
partition.

good luck with it,
Mark ................mbruhn@ibm.net

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