[PLUG] installation help!

[Eric Pratt]

I had this problem when trying to dual boot with 98.  If the first
partition on the drive is 8GB or larger, then you try to put a /boot after
that partition, it won't work.  What I ended up doing was installing a 4GB
FAT32 partition for Win98, then seting up /boot and my linux parition.

It has been so long since I have done this that I cannot remember all of
the details of what I did and why I did it, but I may be wrong on that 8GB
partition size.  It may be 4GB or I may have just made the 4GB partition
just to screw around, I really can't remember.  The main point is that the
/boot must be within the first so many GB of the hard drive for some
reason I don't understand.  

I don't know if that helps, but if you need more help, let me know and
I'll take a look at my setup (it's on my laptop and I don't have it with
me right now) and see if I can figure out more of what is going on.

Eric

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Wiyan Wong wrote:

> I downloaded Redhat 6.2.  But when I was trying to install it (the step in 
> disk druid), it wouldn't let me create the boot partition (/boot).  Error 
> message: boot partition too big.  The redhat installation guide said the 
> maximum amount for boot partition is 16megs,   ! even tried 1 Meg, but it 
> still gave me the same allocation error.  Can someone help me on this?
> 
> Wiyan
> 
> 
> ____________________________________________________
> The Purdue Linux Users' Group (PLUG) mailing list.
> plug mailing list  -  plug@csociety.purdue.edu
> http://csociety.ecn.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/plug
>