Dual Boot Installation

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 08:48:03AM +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote:
> G'day all,
> 
> I'm installing fedora on a windows XP computer: it has a 40Gb 
> partition: 13Gb NTFS windows system partition, 102 boot Linux 
> partition, 11.9 Gb Linux root partition, 957 Mb Linux swap partition, 
> and 2 Fat32 shared data partitions.
> 
> I've been consistently getting 2 errors:
> 
> 1.	When partitioning, I get a "boot partition /boot may not meet 
> booting constraints of your system for you architecture".
This is not really a problem especially if you are using the grun boot
loader.
> 
> 2.   when installing packages (at random stages): "There was an error 
> installing [package]. This can indicate media failure, lack of disk 
> space, and/or hardware problems. This is a fatal error and your 
> install will be aborted. Please verify your media and try your 
> install again. Press the OK button to reboot your system." The media 
> has checked out fine.
> 
> To try and resolve this problem, I've tried:
> 
> 1.   Installing off CD with "linux allowcddma" - same problem
> 
> 2.   Installing off CD with "linux ide=nodma" - same problem
> 
> 3.   Installing off newly burned CDs - same problem
> 
> 4.   Installing via local FTP from previously downloaded ISOs - same 
> problem
> 
> 5.   Installing via local FTP from rpms extracted from previously 
> downloded ISOs - same problem
> 
> 6.   Installing via local from newly re-downloaded rpms - same 
> problem
> 
> I'm fresh out of ideas - does anyone have any suggestions? :-/
> 
The rest of these tries seem to indicate a hardware failure. I assume
some of the partitions are extended partitions. Why do you have so
many?
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