Just fdisk first, then install from a boot floppy instead of booting
from the CD . . . should take care of all your problems.

r

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> In as much as I can't find a support page or email contact for us poor
> shmos that want desperately to install Linux, but who are unable to,
> I've taken the liberty of writing here.
> I have a Compaq 7PL287, running Windows ME, and have tried installing
> Linux RedHat and Mandrake for the last 1 1/2 months, with equal
> success-none to be exact.
> When attempting to install RedHat, the installation proceeds to:
> running /sbin/loader, and then freezes there and nothing else happens!
> I've tried everything I can think of: I installed Windows 98, thinking
> that it might be a ME problem. No dice. I've tried various .img files,
> all with the same result.
> I hope that someone has some kind of idea for this thing. I suspect
> that you know who has made it such that a Linux install is impossible
> with this computer. If this is so, then the future of the Linux OS is
> at stake. If not, I would appreciate some sort of help here. My best
> friend is very Linux literate, and is at his wits end on this thing.
> He, by the way, has a smaller and slightly earlier version of my
> computer, and has had a dual boot thing going for over a year.
> I mean, I'd be very happy to stick it to Gates and co., especially
> after they seem to have misplaced DOS ("We feel that consumers no
> longer need DOS" -a Compaq representative). My only fear is that he's
> stuck it to me first.
> PLEASE HELP!
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> ~Eugene Bienvenue
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