>I just bought a new computer with a Quantum Fireball 20.4 GB hard drive.
The
>included special version of Partition Magic in the 6.5 version of the
>Mandrake-Linux seems to work fine; it builds a Linux partition and swap
>partition on the tail end of my hard drive. They are primary partitions and
>the main Linux partition is 3 GB in size. I intend to keep most of the
drive
>dedicated to the Microsux OS until I get a better idea of whether Linux
will
>meet my needs.
I just installed L-M 6.1 on the same size disk. Mine was installed as a
primary slave to a smaller Windoze drive. You can rule out the "Disk is too
big theory".
You do need to make a /boot partition at the beginning of the drive. That
could be your problem. It sounds like you haven't fully settled into this
new machine yet. Can you rework it so Linux can be at the front of the drive
and Windoze on the rest? Also, I didn't make partitions before running
install, but just let Disk Druid do it in the install program. That worked
quite nicely.
Good luck!
Gregg
