Ron....if you don't have it, you need to get it, here:
http://www.toms.net/rb/
It enables you to boot up any x86 machine in linux, by simply
inserting the floppy and re-booting. It has lots of utilities
for you to use in a ramdisk based filesystem, so it doesn't
interfere with anything on the system's hard drives, or even
need a hard drive to run.
Alan
"Yacketta,Ronald J" wrote:
>
> whats tomsrtbt ? never heard of that one....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 8:25 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] booting / installing from 7-02 iso
>
> Ron....if I were having that problem I'd boot up on tomsrtbt and
> run the linux fdisk program:
>
> fdisk /dev/hda
>
> and do a p command to see the partitions.
>
> Alan
>
> "Ronald J. Yacketta" wrote:
> >
> > Hello all!!
> > I have built numerous linux boxes from slackware to mandrake and have yet
> to
> > run into the following problem I am haveing with my recent go at burning
> the
> > LM 7-02 iso and installing from it.
> >
> > I have a win95 box i want to dual boot
> > I used fips and reduced my C drive down to 3g and freed up 3g to install
> LM
> > onto
> > I boot the cd and go through the initial phase (type of install (custome,
> > serve,devel etc..))
> > and then it dies saying something along the lines that it can not find a
> > free partition
> >
> > I boot of a floppy, run fdisk and lone and behold I am only using 50% of
> my
> > drive allowing another os to use the other 50%
> >
> > what gives? why does LM 7-02 burnt iso not smart enough to see I have 3g
> > available to install in? what do I need todo to get LM to wake up and
> smell
> > the roses???
> >
> > Ron
