On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote:
>
> Of course, I know about having to have a swap partition and I'm not having a
> problem with that. It's only 128Mb.
>
> I deleted a 5GB partition and tried to make one 2 GB and
> one 1.5 GB partition which only totals 3.5GB. That would leave 1.5GB for Linux
> to use to reserve space for the bad spots you mention, wouldn't it?
>
> I don't think the Disk Druid (used during Mandrake installation) asked me
> whether i wanted the partitions to be extended or primary. It just asks if I
> want "native", "swap" "DOS" etc. But then I'm all confused anyway. I know
> fdisk (Linux) asks that, but I didn't use that.
>
> ;-)
>
Wierd...I'm not a big fan of Disk Druid. :-) Try Fdisk. It's MUCH
easier to make partitions of the proper type. :-) Plus, I don't THINK
it'll give you those nasty "not enough space" errors. :-)
John
