On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Robert Cloud wrote:
> Yada, yada, yada ... therefore I think Linux is > great: however ... > > 1) My system has a 2.5 hard disk (with all my goodies installed). > > 2) I've used FIPS to partition (successfully) said HD. > > 3) I've downloaded your distribution and stat to "install." > > 4)CFDSIK starts. I get throught the keyboard setup (no problem). > > 5) I'm told that I don't have a swap partition, and then > agree to "partition." > > 6) O.K., hda1 is my main partition (with all my goodies)2GB > hda2 is what I created with FIPs 400MB > and then I have this "pri/log" thing with about 3.95mb > > 7)The hda2 partition has "win fat32". I go to 'TYPE" to > change to "83" to make it a Linux partiton. > > Bottom line ... I'm stuck here! No Linux partition, no Linux > swap partition ... just a dumb ol' WIN fat 32 partition. > > Please help. I trying to convince my company to really "look at" > Linux. But I can't even get it onto my computer It's been a while, but I believe you need to delete the fat32 partition, then create a new partition of type 83 out of the newly freed space.
