🚀 go-pugleaf

It's 31 Mar 96  13:13,
We'll return to mike@calypso.bns.com.au and All's
discussion of installing linux problem

 >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

 mi> After you have run fdisk and created a Linux partition or two and
 mi> a swap partition you will need to run setup to install the system
 mi> on a partition.

 mi> If you are wiping your drive I would boot Linux without creating a D
 mi> drive.  You can partition the disk with Linux fdisk.

I think you may have hit the nail on the head here.  Sounds like the
original poster is creating a partition with Dos's fdisk, and when Linux
attempts to install, it can't find any space to fit a native partition
on.  While you can create a DOS partition with Linux's fdisk command
(using the t command to change the partition type), the reverse isn't
true.  I just installed Linux on my 386, which had a special problem due
to the number of cylinders on the HDD (> 1024 and no enhanced IDE :-( ).
By using Linux to create both DOS and the various Linux partitions I
needed. :-)

Works like a charm now. :-)

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