Did you have a /boot partition near the beginning of the drive?
Jerry
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From: Matt Herbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, February 21, 2000 2:00 PM
Subject: Redhat Install on 27 GIG IDE
>
>Hey everybody,
>
>After an awesome quake 3 LAN party this weekend :), one of my friends
>decided he wanted to try linux on his system. I excitedly agreed to
>help him install Red Hat 6.1. To my surprise and disappointment, I
>couldn't get it installed to save my life. He has a new system with
>a 27 GIG IDE hard drive. When he set the system up, he formatted a
>~24 GIG Windows partion, and left 3 GIG as unpartioned space. For
>some strange reason, the redhat installer simply wouldn't allow me to
>create a / partion on that space, it kept saying there wasn't enough
>room.
>
>What I was doing, was creating a 128 meg swap partion, which worked
>fine. Then I would create a 1 meg / partion and select the "Grow to
>fill disk" checkbox. That didn't work. So I typed in the the size
>of the partion based on the free space printed in the summary section.
>Nix on that too. So I tried creating a 100 meg / partion ... nope.
>Always the same error. I could create any other partion without a
>problem, e.g. I created a /home and set it to "Grow to fill disk"
>and it worked fine. I just couldn't create the slash partion.
>
>The only thing I can guess at, is that slash needs to be hda1
>(although I'd swear I've had slash as hda5 before) or possibly the
>slash partion needs to be near the beginning of the disk for some
>ancient bios reason.
>
>So does anybody know what the problem might be? and if there is a
>workaround?
>
>-Matt
>
>--
>Matthew W. Herbert x75764
>Spectrum Advanced Applications
>http://www.aprisma.com/
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