[TriLUG] Fedora installation issue

Roy Vestal rvestal at trilug.org
Thu Jan 8 19:38:11 EST 2004


Thanks. Didn't work. :( I'll try to get the ntfs partition lower than
1024c and try it again.

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 06:20, Dean Price wrote:
> 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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