I ran into the same thing on mine. It was the size of my win98
partition. Set your first partition down to about 7.5 gigs and the
others will install. You need to have your boot partition in the first
1023 cylinders, under 8 gigs.
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>
> Hello all,
>
> First I'll state my current system configuration:
>
> Gateway 700MHz PIII, 192MB PC100, IBM DeskStar 27.4GB running on Promise PCI
> ATA/66 Controller Card, 32MB nVidia GeForce 256, Soundblaster Live!
>
> I am currently running into two problems during installation of Mandrake 7.0.
>
> The First: After partitioning my drive using Partition Magic to a 4.084GB
> partition for Linux, I try to install BootMagic. The intallation within
> Windows gives me an error message to the effect of: BootMagic Installation
> cannot complete because: 1. There is no FAT16 or FAT32 partition available
> under the 1024 cylinder or, 2. BootMagic is already installed on a hidden
> partition. Any ideas?
>
> The Second, more important problem: When running the DrakX installation
> utillity from CD-ROM I get to the drive mounting point, only to find that
> Linux is not recognizing my drive (I suspect this is because my hdd is
> running from the ATA/66 Controller) I have tried all the drivers listed and
> none of them will work. Also I found some instructions geared for Red Hat 6.1
> where you enter "text" at the boot: prompt and make changes manually.
> Mandrake 7 gives me the message, unable to locate kernel image "text".
>
> Is anyone willing to give me detailed instructions on how to fix this? I
> have never even seen Linux running except for screenshots, so please explain
> in plain terms.
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Steve Gillson
> "DJ Phrenzy"
