I recently submitted a problem with installation to the customer service (follows). Although I have not received the remedy, I thought I'd pose the question here since I'm sure I will not be the only one to have this problem. On a side note, I was wondering how advantageous a secondary hard drive would be for a dual-boot system. Feel free to send thoughts on a second hard drive directly to my e-mail account. Thank you. Original Message: I am running Windows 98 second edition on a Compaq Presario 7471 Internet PC. Compaq has my system set up with a partition already made. The C: drive being the main partition and the D: drive being the second partition. all my work is done with the C: drive, the D: drive is there for reinstalling software to factory settings. The D: drive is unneeded since the Compaq software CD's for my system work better than the D: drive installation. Now to the problem. I want to have the dual-boot option so that I may keep Windows 98 working on my system. I wanted to install Linux Mandrake 7.2 Powerpack Deluxe on the same hard drive, I own only one hard drive. Configuring my set-up worked very smoothly until I reach the step "Setup Filesystems" Linux recognized both partitions (C: and D:) and asked which partition I would like Linux to be installed on. My natural choice was the larger C: partition. The error message I received when selecting the C: drive is as follows: Partitioning Failed: The FAT resizer is unable to handle your partition, the following error occurred: Can't locate object method "new" via package "resize_fat::main" at /usr/bin/perl-install/install_interactive.pm line 108, <> line 6 My hard drive utilizes Windows' FAT 16 file allocation. I have ActivePerl 5.6.623 installed on Windows 98. My computer boots my CD-RW before my floppy, allowing me to boot for CD installation with no problem. I have noticed no other obvious errors when attempting to install the Linux OS. I also noticed no unusual problems with the Windows software. However, I am completely inexperienced with using Linux software. I have researched the mailing lists and the booklets as well as the tutorials accompanying the distribution. My limited knowledge points me towards purchasing a secondary hard drive, deleting the D: drive, and requesting your aid... I decided to start here first. I thank you for your time and patience and look forward to hearing something soon. Please feel free to request any and all information you feel is appropriate to help alleviate this situation. I still anxiously await my first step away from the Windows environment :^) Sincerely and respectfully, Hans Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
