Thanks Earl, I used fdisk to partition my hdd. It
worked. Now I will load Linux.
A M Morawala
--- Erle Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : I have a 1033 MB HDD, with 500MB used as C: and
> the
> : rest unpartitioned free space.
>
> i.e. 533 MB for Linux right ?
>
> : When I try to create a
> : root ( /) partition, I get an error "Unallocated
> : partition space, boot partition too big".
>
> Hmmm.... thats a new error ... I haven't seen it
> before ... shall have to
> look into it.
>
> How are you creating the partitions ? Custom I
> presume ( using disk druid /
> fdisk ? )
> Send more details please...
> Are You attemting to create the /boot partion ?
>
> Did U try a previous install which failed (i.e. did
> U write to FAT table?
> => in this case it is possible the previous install
> has 'corrupted' the FAT
> table ( don't worry ... simply ovewrite the fat
> table - unused portion - DO
> NOT TOUCH Ur DOS partition )....
> ... In case U can't do it via disk druid...
> .. use fdisk...
> . or use a dos utility to reformat the unused
> portion .
>
> press :
> "Alt+F3" when installing linux... this will give U
> the install log screen
> also try:
> Alt + F4 : system log
> Alt + F5 : general logs / messages
>
> Linux will let U know more about the error U are
> receiving .
> send the errors if possible (shortened ) .
>
> Erle Pereira
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