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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> -----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> From: Ms. Lene Jensen [<A HREF="mailto:ljensen@redhat.com">mailto:ljensen@redhat.com</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Sent: 14 July 2003 17:34</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> To: Greater London Linux Users Group</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Help with Red Hat 8.0 install on Win 98</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 itsbruce@uklinux.net wrote:</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 08:38:39AM +0000, Robert Boulter wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > Hi,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > I am stumped on my Red Hat 8 install on the following point.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > My single hard disk has been formatted into two logical </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> partition C: and </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > D: I have moved all my windows data to C: and tried to </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> install my root </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > partition on D: using disk druid. However disk druid is </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> returning a </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > message telling me I need to create a boot disk. Can </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> anybody help?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > Assuming a default set-up, when your PC boots it's going to </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> look first</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > for a floppy to boot from and then at the start of the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> first available</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > hard disk for boot code, which in your case is Drive C:. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> If you want to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > boot Linux on this computer then you need either to have </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> the Linux boot</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > loader installed at the beginning of the first drive or to </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> create a boot</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > floppy which you can put into the floppy drive when you </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> want to boot to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > Linux. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Excuse me, but this is not so. What the installer asks for is one</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> partition for swap and one for /. That is _required_, so the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> disk needs</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> to have at least 2 partitions for Linux.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>My Dreamcast has no swap partition and runs linux perfectly well. </FONT>
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