[Gllug] Help on disk partitioning for Red Hat 8

[Robert Boulter]

Hi,
  When I manually partition with disk druid, quite early on before any 
actual install, I edit my d: drive, or /dev/hda5 as red hat calls it, to 
have a mount point of / a file system of ext3.  It then returns an error 
saying 'Warning: Boot partition / may not meet booting constraints for your 
architecture. Creation of a boot disk is highly encouraged' and then offers 
me the option of modifying the partition again.
Regards Rob.



>From: Stephen Harker <steve at pauken.co.uk>
>Reply-To: Greater London Linux Users Group <gllug at linux.co.uk>
>To: Greater London Linux Users Group <gllug at linux.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: [Gllug] Help on disk partitioning for Red Hat 8
>Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:53:45 +0000
>
>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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