Boot Partition Too Big

[JustAGuyBDH]

Hey, I have worked with Linux on a limited basis a few times over the past few years. However, each time I have done so, it has been on a harddrive all by itself.

However, I am now wanting to have a dual-boot system.

I have a 20 Gig harddrive. I have installed Win2K on my laptop in a 15G NTFS partition (I will be doing the majority of my programming and graphics/video editing in windows - at least until I get a good grasp on doing so in Linux)

Now, the remainder of my harddrive is unpartitioned.

I was planning on doing a 4.5 Gig Linux partition with a 500 Meg swap partition. The current version of Linux that I am trying to install is RedHat 6.2 - I am open to suggestions of a better version to use.

I tried to use Disk Druid to format my Linux partitions, however, when I do so, I get an error stating, 'boot partition too big'

Now, I am assuming that this is refering to my NTFS partition

Can someone please give me a clue... thanks for the help

[mdwatts]

Redhat 6.2 is a bit old and also has a version of Lilo that has the 1024 cylinder limitation.

If your hardware meets or exceeds the minimum requirements, I would suggest you try Redhat 7.3 although Redhat does not have ntfs support by default. You need to recompile the kernel to enable ntfs support.

You could also consider Mandrake 8.2.

[JustAGuyBDH]

So, you are recommending Redhat, hands down

I've thought about going with Slackware... i'd rather not spend any more money on this until I am quite comfortable with Linux

BTW, thanks for the info

[mdwatts]

I only suggested Redhat 7.3 since you were trying to install 6.2.

Pick whatever distro you like, but remember to verify your hardware against their HCL.

[JustAGuyBDH]

so, you think the reason that I got the 'boot partition too big' error was because the distro i was using was too old.... alright, well, I'll try something newer and see how that works...