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Having problems installing Liunux

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jfall

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I use to run linux about a year ago and got out of it for a while. Well, I got a new computer and I want to put it on again and tinker around with it.

So, I downloaded Slackware 7.1 the other night, but i'm having troubles installing it. I made the Bookdisk 1.44 using bare.i and I made the Rootdisk with color.gz. I then made a 2 gig Liunx Ex2 partition and a 100 meg linux swap partition using partition magic 6.0.

I booted up with the boot disk.... then put in the root disk.... I got to the menu, but the first thing that poped up was something telling me that it found no Linux Native partitions, try using `cfdisk` or `fdisk`.

I don't understand why it can't find my Linux partitions. I went into Partition magic, clicked on `create new partition` it asked me what OS i wanted to install, I selected `Linux`, then it asked me the size and I selected `2,000mb`, it also made the Linux Swap partition for me, partition magic did all the work, the partitions were the correct format, but the linux installer did not pick up on this.

Can anyone help me out? what should I try next? a different boot disk... a different way of making the partitions? Also, one finaly question, should the linux partitions be `primary` or `logical`?

Thanks if you read this,

P.S. If you need to know anything about my computer to help me with this problem, just goto my system rig
 
I'd create the root partition primary (or boot if you're having that seperate, though it looks like you're not), and then put the swap and any other partitions in as extended. I've used partition magic to setup my partitions (though I have 5.0 not 6.0), and Slackware 7.1 installed fine. If it's not seeing them though maybe you should just create them yourself. Use fdisk (or cfdisk) to create them and then you can do a mkext2fs on them if you want, but it's not necessary since the installer will do that if you want.
 
Ya, I have tried making the linux partitions primary and it still did the same thing. I think i'm going to try formatting the whole thing and making the partitions with Linux Fdisk. Could the issue be possible being caused by Linux not reconizing my Hard Drive???
 
Well, yes.....if your ide hard-disk is connected to RAID controller.
Linux (normally) doesn't have a driver for the IDE-RAID, if you have to find one
and install it after the system is installed....

 
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