Hi there
Had a somewhat similar problem over here..
Your /boot partition should be about 25 MB in size which is more
than sufficient, rest you can assign to your / partition. You can easily
afford a 128 MB swap partition if you do not have enough RAM..
The /boot partition would be taken as a primary partition. You can
have only 4 primary partitions. out of which 1 is an extended partition
inside which all secondary partitions are made.
It is recommended to have the /boot partition within the first 1024
cylinders of your HDD for LILO to work properly.
tell me if this works
----------Jayant
At 11:05 AM 6/27/00 +0530, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a typical problem. I have a 17 GB HDD, of which there is 2 GB
>partition of FAT16 which contains the WIN98 OS. The remaining 15 GB is free,
>i.e i have partitioned the 2Gb using DOS fdisk utility and left the rest
>unpartitioned.
>
>After that i have started the Linux installation. When i use Disk Druid to
>partition the disk, it accepts everything except / and /boot. On entering
>/boot with a size of 16MB or so it says partition too big, similarly it is
>giving the same error for / size also. With this problem i am not able to
>progress further.
>
>Can anybody point out the solution to this problem. There are no Extended
>DOS partitions present in the HDD. So assume the except the 2GB of FAT16
>rest is free.
>
>Awaiting an early response
>
>
>Regards
>Ramanujan
>
>
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