In a message dated 11/1/2000 2:41:38 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< "Michael H. Bracey" wrote:
> Sorry if this is a re-post. I never saw the original one show up...
>
> I'm booting from the CD-ROM to make a first install of 7.2 on a 27.9G IDE
> HD with only the existing windows partition. Everything seems to go fine
> until I hit the confirming screen which requires an OK to go ahead with
> the partitioning process. But as soon as this dialog box pops up,
> everything freezes up. I can't even scroll down, cancel, or go back to a
> previous install step. My only recourse is to reboot. Nothing seems to
> be harmed, as I can reboot to the CD to try again or reboot to the HD and
> get W98 back just fine. Why can't I partition?
>
> (I did scandisk and defrag as recommended.)
>
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Michael
Are you using a BIOS feature to prevent writing the MBR? Some stop it with
LMK, others don't.
-Cmo
>>
Likewise, are you using a shim, that is a disk/motherboard-bios manager
program. If so it may be that you must boot to the program and use it to
create the partitions for linux [there are several and I don't remember the
details of all of them]. Otherwise, did you shrink you windows partition
(perhaps with fips) and leave empty, unallocated space for linux mandrake to
actually partition? [Admittedly it doesn't sound like you are getting quite
this far.] -Gary-
