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William Bagwell wrote:

&gt;On Saturday 24 April 2004 08:50 am, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
&gt;  
&gt;
&gt;&gt;Well,  I've got my dual-boot box up and running (3 partitions, linux,
&gt;&gt;doze, and data), 
&gt;&gt;    
&gt;&gt;
&gt;
&gt;Hopefully not in that order.  I would suggest, Doze, data, Linux.  And if the 
&gt;data is to be shared, make it Fat so both can write to it.
&gt;
&gt;  
&gt;
** I boo boo'd before.  It is doze, data, linux.  It actually would work 
any other way.

&gt;&gt;but I'm going to do it over again to see if I can 
&gt;&gt;figure out what went wrong.  But, in the meantime, feel free to take a
&gt;&gt;stab at this.  It would *only* install if the partition available was
&gt;&gt;
&gt;&gt; &gt;=25G.  I resized, retried, resized, retried (the error I kept getting
&gt;&gt;
&gt;&gt;was regarding insufficient disk size, so this made sense at the time),
&gt;&gt;and 25GB seemed to be the magic number.  I even formatted the drive and
&gt;&gt;started the process over again (I've now built a dual-boot box 3 times,
&gt;&gt;I'm starting to get proficient at it B-) ) thinking maybe I'd done
&gt;&gt;something wrong earlier.  Any idea why it wouldn't install on a 10G
&gt;&gt;partition?
&gt;&gt;    
&gt;&gt;
&gt;
&gt;No, not unless it is the reverse of something I have seen with Mandrake.  In 
&gt;rereading the whole thread, it looks like you are manually partitioning.  I 
&gt;have had auto-allocate fail with Mandrake when it is not *all* of the 
&gt;remaining space.  For example, 10 Gig hd with 4 for doze, auto-allocate will 
&gt;partition the remaining 6, 40 Gig drive with 8 for Windows, it will not auto 
&gt;partition a 10Gig &quot;space&quot;.  Seem to recall an illogical error message similar 
&gt;to the one your getting.  Manually creating and sizing allways seems to work 
&gt;for me.
&gt;
&gt;I would try the four steps posted by James P. Kinney first.  It just seems 
&gt;right...  If that does not work, then just for grins try an (approximately) 4 
&gt;Gig /, swap, 6 Gig /home in that order.  (no separate /boot)
&gt;  
&gt;

** I also try to stay away from the auto-allocate feature, and just 
manually size each partition myself.  Ultimately, I installed WinXP on a 
15G partition, setup a 15G partition for data, and then 100M boot, 1G 
swap, and the rest /


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