RE: [plug] Boot partition too large

Fri, 11 May 2001 07:02:16 -0700

i think so cause i also partion my free space using win2k and it work perfectly.
but if i skip that process my "/" partition only accepts 1gb of my harddisk.
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I have the same setup, except that I have 2 primary partitions and 1 extended (with 2 logical drives) and there is a free undefined partition.

thanks anyway.

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>eerrhhmmmm... I guess you should first create a file system
>/ext2/reserfs/swap/ in your intended Linux partition ...?
>
>sorry, I have no experience with NT-Linux just Win98-Linux
>my set up is like this .....
>
>|-- primary --|---------------- extended --------|
>| "C" | "D" | "E" | "F" |
> |<------ logical drives ---------->|
>| hdaX | hdaX | hdaY | hdaY |
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>|<------- windows ----------------->|<-- Linux ->|
>|<------- fat32-------------------->|<---------->|
> A
> /ext2/reserfs/swap/------------------|
>
>where: 1 <= X <= 4 [i guess...]
>where: 5 <= Y [i guess...]
>
>from my experience RH6.2 requires that the
>"/" or "/boot" be in hdaX
>
>while LM7.1 & LM7.2 should be ok with both hdaX & hdaY
>
>HTH ...
>
>Leo Martinez wrote:
> >
> > I normally put a FAT/NTFS partition first, before I install linux. I delete
> > that particular MS partition with a Disk Druid and make linux partitions. But
> > this time I didn't do it that way. Instead, I just allocated a free partition
> > (no FS yet) and tried to install linux on that free partition. Do you think
> > there is a relation between the 2 methods?
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