You need a Swap partition. I recomed to use fdisk instead of
diskdruid.
Regards
Eduardo
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Date forwarded: 29 Jan 2000 20:18:57 -0000
Date sent: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 15:16:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Dave Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Disk Druid Install Problems
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> The 1024 cylinder is not around 1.4GB on most drives - it's closer to
> 8GB and only the /boot partition has to be completely below the 1024
> cylinder - the rest of the system can be anywhere on the disk. The
> reason for the 1024 cylinder limit for /boot is that most BIOS can't
> load anything above that so the /boot partition containing the kernel
> has to be below 1024.
>
> As to the original question - this could be the reason since hda2 is at
> least partially above the 1024 cylinder.
>
> Dave
>
>
> > From: on4hu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > let me know wat is "8g" is 8 Gigabytes????
> > if this is correct
> > linux must be installed, all version below the 1024 sector
> > (around below 1.4Gb) and can never above this value
> >
> >
> > At 09:22 29/01/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I have the following partitions:
> > >
> > > hda1 8g Windoze 98
> > > hda2 1g Linux (slackware)
> > > hda3 1g Linux (slackware)
> > > hda4 4g BeOS
> > >
> > >I am trying to install the redhat distribution to hda2, but disk druid
> > >will not let me proceede.
> > >
> > >The next button is greyed out. Even if I set the mount point to / for
> > >hda2.
> > >
> > >Any ideas?
> > >
> > >thanks
> > >jsm
>
>
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