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From: Will Rose cwr@cra...
Subject: installation problems
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 04:24:17 -0500

John D. Pritchard (jdp@cs....) wrote:

: hi,

: on File System Installation, prep fails with "24 not enough room for boot" 

: i've got 37Mb free on C:, and 280+Mb on an unformatted partition 

: the machine is a Dell P60, Viewsonic 17" SVGA, 3Com ethernet, MS-DOG 6.2,
: completely clean.  i just fdisked and installed DOG.

: DOG made me format the upper half of the disk, but i went back and deleted
: the logical drive in a weak attempt to get prep by this problem.

If this is a CDROM install, then you need around 2MB free on the first
(MSDOS) partition, no other partitions on the disk, and around 530 MB
of free disk space.  Otherwise you have to install by hand.

Will
cwr@cra...