i ran into these same problems. the reason you are receiving these error
messages, is because LILO is supposed to go in the first 1024 cylinders of
your hard drive. your BIOS looks in those first cylinders to boot your
computer. however your windows partition is occupying that area, and the
only way you can load LILO is by erasing your windows partition. but if you
select custom install during the redhat installation, rather than
workstation, and set up your partitions manually with fdisk, rather than
disk druid, you can create your root and swap partitions, and just skip
having to load LILO into your master boot record. to load linux you will
need to boot to a dos command prompt (safe mode command prompt), and run a
program like loadlin.exe which is included in the dosutils folder of the
redhat distro.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Puntch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 2:10 AM
Subject: Partitioning problems.
> OK, so I just got a brand spanking new copy of redhat 6.1 in the mail
> today and I'm dying to try it out. I messed with my partitioning, so I
now
> have an approx. 11 gig windows partition and about 2.25 gig unpartitioned
> and just for linux stuff. So I make a bootdisk, run it, yadda yadda. I
> selected a workstation-class install, and everything was working peachy.
> But, when I get to the part about setting up partitions, it won't let me
> set up a boot partition. It always says that the size of the boot
> partition is too large, even when I set the size to 1 meg. If I try to
> create a root and swap partition, it gives me the same message. Any
> thoughts on the causes of this?
> The system I'm running on, by the way, is a Dell pentium III with a 13.6
> gig hard drive and 96 megs ram. Any help you could give me on the
> phenomena, or if you could point me in the direction of help, would be
> greatly appreciated.
> Ben
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