Help RH installation with win2k installed.

[VirginLinux]

My setup:
c: has win2k installed (ntfs)
d: fat32
e: ntfs
f: fat32

Can I install Linux on d drive? I tried but I kept getting not enough
space when I try to install linux on d drive. How should I do this? Thanks
in advance.

[Cuthbert]

How big is your D: drive? And what distro are you trying to install?

[VirginLinux]

My setup:
c: has win2k installed (ntfs) (5gb)
d: fat32 (5gb)
e: ntfs (25 gb)
f: fat32 (25 gb)

my total disk space is 60 gb.
win2k is primary all other is on extended logical drive.

[Marshal]

I just installed RH7 with Windows 2000 on my laptop with a 4GB harddrive. You will probably want to use a non-destructive partitioning tool, like Partition Magic, to create Linux partitions. You may also consider using a boot manager, I am using Bootmagic.
Just FYI my partitions look like this:
2GB NTFS (Win 2k)
280MB FAT32 (for using Bootmagic)
1.7GB Linux
80MB Linux swap

Hopes this helps you some.

Marshal

[DMR]

The RH installer is probably recognizing (and honoring) the existing FAT32 partition on drive d, especially if the partition occupies the whole disk, and you aren't doing a "custom" install of RH. Try deleting the partition on D: using DOS' fdisk, assuming D: doesn't have any valualble data on it. I know Win2k doesn't have much DOS left in it, so I'm not sure if fdisk will be available to you. If not, another option would be to do a custom install of RH, which will allow you to delete/create partitions using RH's DiskDruid or fdisk. The down-side to the custom install is that you basically have to select all of the individual components/packages by hand.
Another "gotcha" is this: if you're trying to install a version of RH prior to 7.x, you'll probably run into the evil LILO 1024-cylinder limitation. If that's the case, Redhat's support site has more info on that issue.

[ 29 July 2001: Message edited by: DMR ]