Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote on 2001/10/13 Sat AM 12:35:03 EDT To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Kernel panic: VFS
It sounds like you may have had a small /boot partition on the first hard drive. (55M primary partition would work well for that.) Now, what the Linux installer is complaining about is that there is no room on your current disk to install Linux on. If you realy do not have anything on D:, E:, and F:, you can use fdisk in DOS to delete the logical drives, and then delete the logical partition. You will also want to delete the 55M primary partition. The reasion you want to use fdisk in DOS for this is because otherwise you can run into problems where Windows will still be looking for the partitions you removed. Depending on how much room you free up, you should be able to install Linux then. There are other ways around this, but they involve using the expert install mode, and you could wipe out your W2K installation. So you are better off using fdisk from the DOS. ========================================================= Fdisk from 6.02 couldn't see anything but C:. I went back to w2k and deleted the other DOS partitions but it still won't let me touch the 55Mb. The Linux installer still gives me the partition of type 0 message. I have 15Gb available. Maybe I'll have to wait for another disc to arrive, then put w2k on it and clean off the 18Gb completely. How would I do this, low-level format, or something else? John Tiedeman _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
