can't you do it using laodlin ? Alternatively maybe the latest lilo 21.4
should help...
Cheerio
Robin
Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
>
> AsAtSi proclaimed:
> > I got a windoze98 installed over 12Gigs, using
> > fips I partitioned 3GBs apart for linux as I dont
> > want to loose the gigs of mp3 off the windoze
> > partition. I dont want to format the drive . With this
> > 9 and 3 Gig partitions I tried to install RH on the
> > 3Gb partition. But while creating the parittions for
> > / ,/boot etc the install script cries that boot
> > partition is too big. How do I overcome this problem ?
>
> Because of the way the computer's BIOS was designed in the past, the boot
> sector should be withing the first 1024 cylinders of the disk. This means
> that /boot should be a partition in the beginning of the disk. Since you
> already have windows there, this is most probably not possible. Easiest
> thing to do if you don't want to loose all the date in Windos is to buy and
> install a boot manager like System Commander. System Commander will
> install a bit of itself in the MBR and the rest of itself in the WinDOS
> partition.
>
> You can configure System Commander to give you the choice of booting into
> windos or linux.
>
> Thaths
> --
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> point two years.
> Homer: Seventy six point two? But I'm already thirty eight point one!
> I've wasted half my life.
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