[Gllug] Help on disk partitioning for Red Hat 8

[Stephen Harker]

On Tuesday 15 July 2003 09:38, Robert Boulter wrote:
> Hi,
>   I have a single physical disc with Windows 98 installed.  Two partitions
> have been made C: and D:.  I have copied all windows data from drive D: to
> drive C:.  This leaves me with D: for my Red Hat Install.  It is formatted
> for vfat.  Using disk druid for a manual install I have installed the root
> partition on drive D:.  However I get an error message saying I need to
> create a boot disk.  A friend has suggested I need to buy partition magic
> to allow me to put /boot on the C: drive.  Any suggestions on a way
> forward.  I don't really want to buy any more extra software without
> knowing what I am doing,

Right. Start again.

Is it asking to make a seperate boot partition on the hard drive or is it 
asking you to make a boot floppy? Is it disk-druid itself that is producing 
the error message? Or is the error later on in the install process?

SteveH

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