[TriLUG] Fedora installation issue

Dean Price dprice153 at charter.net
Thu Jan 8 06:20:10 EST 2004


The problem that you are having doesn't have anything to do with your NTFS
part being too big... Linux will complain and keep going...

Try making your /boot part 150-200MB ... I have noticed that FC1 likes the
boot part to be above 150...

Dean Price
deano at price4.org
dprice153 at charter.net
dean.price at ctg.com


Roy Vestal said:
> I have another laptop that I *had* XP and FC1 installed dual-boot. I
> needed more HDD space for my XP partition, so I ghosted the partition,
> made XP bigger and I have been trying for 2 days to get FC1 to reinstall.
> Everytime, I get an error stating the setup I have "may" not work with my
> hardware configuration, esp the /boot partitition. However, It allows me
> to continue. When I get to the "Copying Install Image", it tells me there
> isn't enough HDD space. ARGH!!!
>
> Here's the disk setup:
> NTFS (XP) 10GB
> /boot 100MB
> swap 1498GB (784MB RAM)
> Extended partition
>  / 25GB
>
> Anyone see something wrong? Any suggestions?
>
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