[plug] creating partitions

Grant Heazlewood gbh at networx.net.au
Thu Aug 5 21:41:02 WST 1999


I have at present a problem creating partitions with redhat. I am
installing rh6 using a boot disk I do a custom install and use disk
druid, when I try to create a  native partition with a mount point of
/  'root' I get a message that the  "boot partition is to big"  and it
has not been allocated, this happens no matter what size I specify and
since it is a 4G drive that is totally dedicated to Linux I am at a loss
as to what could be causing this. I am able to format and use the whole
drive in windows and up until today I was able to do the same with
Linux. I have tried using partition magic as well and although this will
create and format the partitions when I do the install I am unable to
write the bootloader to the MBR or any other partition. Any thoughts on
this from anyone would be greatfully appreciated.

Thanks

Grant



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