-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, extremely sorry for the delayed reply.. i'd remained a bit busy with my messy(adorable) debian machines. deleting logical drives and creating room for linux on non-primary partition won't be problematic. AFAIK only one point to consider with old machines were the limitations to 1024 cylinders (probably i think this was the limitation of lilo -- not sure ). 1024 cylinders go somewhere around 8gb. so if windows already has occupied >=8gb, depending on the situation, it might and might not work.
rrs On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:23:48 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:20:45 +0530, "Ritesh Raj Sarraf" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 05:05:22 -0800 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > I have a machine with win98 loaded and having C,D,E,F,G drives. C is > > > primary partition and the rest are logical partitions. I tried to > > > install linux (RedHat) by deleting the Logical E drive and then > > > creating three partitions as follows : > > > /boot ---> 100MB > > > /swap ---> 256 MB > > > / ---> rest of space. > > > > > > Before all this, I checked the CD and it had no media errors. Now, the > > > partitions were created successfully. But while copying the files into > > > the disk, the computer got stuck mid way. Then I rebooted and started the > > > whole process again. But it happened a second time. What could be wrong? > > > Is it not possible to install linux on a logical partition? Or do I have > > > to create a primary partition to install linux? > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > Ravi > > > -- > > > > how much of RAM are you having on the machine. and is the cdrom perfectly > > okay ? > > also look for debug msgs on tty4 and 5.. > > > > ritesh > > I have 128 MB RAM on that machine. Also the CDROM is working properly. > Since I checked if the CD had media errors using the CDROM. My question > is - is it possible to delete a logical partition from windows (say E: in > my case) and then create ext2[3] filesystems in the freed space? Or is a > primary partition necessary for that? > > Ravi > > -- > http://www.geocities.com/ravee_26/ > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different_ > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAItPn4Rhi6gTxMLwRAsu9AJ9aJlELKIGu+7nBxcwT287xyB7SCwCgjeFb HzLjJFLZmf4aArCUVr5Eu9U= =ERoV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
