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Subject: installing Linux on existing drive
From: warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Date: 29 Jun 2002 14:54:33 -0400
In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.0.20020629141653.01b00c50@pop3.norton.antivirus>
References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020629141653.01b00c50@pop3.norton.antivirus>

With RH7.3 and Grub you do not need a primary partition before
cyl 1024...  That's an old bug and is no longer relevant.

Did you use PM to unparitition, or is the end-data partitioned in some
funky manner?  What error does Disk Druid give you?

-derek

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