>> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Tsoo) >> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Help! >> >I bought a Red Hat Linux which comes with the book "Discover Linux" >> >and tried to install it on my IBM Aptiva. The task of repartitioning >> >the hard drive is supposed to be done before the installation. However, >> >the program didn't work or my computer didn't allow the program to >> >do something. > >Hey, I've got Linux on an Aptiva, too. > >I'm no Linux expert, but I'd that guess your problem is probably with >FAT32. I don't think that the tools which currently come packaged can >repartition a FAT32 partition. They couldn't a year ago. I know at that >time, some hackers were modifying utilities like fdisk to work with FAT32 >properly. Poke around on DejaNews to see if anyone has announced >anything. recent fdisk and newest FIPS (http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/fips20.zip) are both FAT32 aware. i just resized a (win98) fat32 drive and booted it under linux last week. run scandisk under 9{5,8} after FIPSing, and make sure you have a partition that is completely under cylinder 1024 (i think it's cylinder...maybe some other HD stat) for your kernel (this bit me, i had to do it twice.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
