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by eric_hansen

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Im trying to install Linux RH 7.1 dual boot with win2k pro...win2k is on a 20Gig hard drive, I have a second harddrive which is a 10Gig Quantum, this is where I want to install Linux RH...the 20Gig harddrive has a 5gig partition..the 15gig part and the second 10 gig harddrive are both fat32, mean while the 5gig partition is fat16.
I made a boot disk using rawrite, with boot.img...the ISO (seawolf1 and 2) are on the 5gig partition.
It recognizes them both correctly, and begins qitht everythingcorrectly as well...except for the following...:_

In the installation process, this is what it tells me when im going to partition:
DRIVE SUMMARIES
DRIVE GEOM(C/H/S) TOTAL USED FREE
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HDA (2481/255/63) 19461M 19453M 8M
HDD (1247/255/63) 9781M 8024M 1757M

the 5Gig part. ive been telling you about does not appear here...-but the funnything is, that information is totally wrong...this is how it should read based on my knowledge of my computer!

hda---------free space: 11.0Gig
hda5--------(partition) free space: 1.56Gig
hdd---------(hard drive where I want to install LinuxRH)free space: 7.81Gig

because of this I cant partition, because it keeps on telling me that theres not enough space!!!
so, can you help me out with this pls...
I want to, on the /root part., put 7000MB, and on the /swap 500MB.

RGDS

Eric Hansen

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by i_am_me

Delete the Fat16 partician. This will give space for the Linux filesystem to be created.
There are versions of Linux that will install on a DOS Fat filesystem but the loss of performance is not worth the convenience.

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