> >Did you create a dos partition covering that gig of
> >drivespace?
>
> No, I didn't. I had Win98 format the drive. There is 1,081,523,224 bytes
> free on the drive or 1.00 GB.
>
That's the problem there.... Linux sees a DOS/Windows
partition and thinks the drive is full.
>
> If so, delete that partition and then restart
> >your install. I'm guessing that it thinks that the disk
> >you're trying to install it on is already being used by
> >DOS/Windows.
>
>
> Well, I've answered that but how do I format (or something) the drive so
> that RH Install will see that it's empty? That's my problem.
>
>
Disk Druid will automatically format. However, what you CAN
do is boot to Win98's "command prompt only" (F8 during boot
when it says "Starting Windows 98" and select
"command-line" or something like that) and then run "FDISK
and select the drive (probably need to change the current
drive to the "Linux" drive) and then select "Delete
partition" After you do that, exit out of FDISK with the
empty drive and re-run the Linux installation and it SHOULD
show up as available space.
BTW, it has been my experience that if you do the "install
everything" and "select packages," then remove the foreign
language "how-to" packages that 1 gig will be BARELY
enough. I have no experience installing either the server
or the workstation as I have done a custom install every
time.
