2.1 install problems on 8500

Robert Brandtjen yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri Mar 29 18:01:05 2002


On Friday 29 March 2002 08:16 pm, Yeti wrote:
>     original 1gb hard drive, i gave it two partitions
>      the bare minimum for os8.1 (like 75mb or so) and
>      the rest (955mb) for linux.
>  I was thinking that mabey I need more than 1GB...
> cause of the install menu that says
>  "you need following partitions"
> 10mb boot, 128mb swap, 1+GB linux...

You do need more - as in maybe another 2 gigs minimum would be nice - see if 
you can pick up a used drive at a local used comp store or a users group. 
narrow scsi drives under 4 gigs in size are pretty cheap nowadays.
-- 
 Robert Brandtjen
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