[Gllug] Help with Red Hat 8.0 install on Win 98

[Adrian McMenamin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ms. Lene Jensen [mailto:ljensen at redhat.com]
> Sent: 14 July 2003 17:34
> To: Greater London Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Help with Red Hat 8.0 install on Win 98
> 
> 
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 itsbruce at uklinux.net wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 08:38:39AM +0000, Robert Boulter wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >  I am stumped on my Red Hat 8 install on the following point.
> > >  My single hard disk has been formatted into two logical 
> partition C: and 
> > > D:  I have moved all my windows data to C: and tried to 
> install my root 
> > > partition on D: using disk druid.  However disk druid is 
> returning a 
> > > message telling me I need to create a boot disk.  Can 
> anybody help?
> > 
> > Assuming a default set-up, when your PC boots it's going to 
> look first
> > for a floppy to boot from and then at the start of the 
> first available
> > hard disk for boot code, which in your case is Drive C:.  
> If you want to
> > boot Linux on this computer then you need either to have 
> the Linux boot
> > loader installed at the beginning of the first drive or to 
> create a boot
> > floppy which you can put into the floppy drive when you 
> want to boot to
> > Linux.  
> 
> Excuse me, but this is not so.  What the installer asks for is one
> partition for swap and one for /.  That is _required_, so the 
> disk needs
> to have at least 2 partitions for Linux.
> 

>

My Dreamcast has no swap partition and runs linux perfectly well. 
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