Please help if you can, but I have an old P1 Gateway 2000 w/ 64MB of RAM that I'm trying to put Slackware on and all of my attempts at doing so have failed. This PC has 1 3.7GB drive, and 1 40GB drive that supposedly has a DDO installed (W2k reads it fine) that I have just reformatted, and recreated partitions on. I'm trying to install from a partition on the 40GB hard drive that I've set aside for the contents of the ISO file to be copied to. Everything is fine until I try to format it with the ext2 filesystem (partition 6 is one of the partitions I want to set aside for linux).... fdisk /dev/hdd6 n p 1 (enter) w When I type w and press enter, it says the following... "WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 22: Invalid argument. The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at next reboot. Syncing disks." When I reboot, it's like nothing was written, the same error occurs, and when I type SETUP, the setup complains of no linux partitions! I've tried cfdisk, and the same error occurs, I've tried Parted, and about the same error occurs. Doing a fdisk -l shows all of my partitions correctly, but none are formatted with ext2. What is wrong? Thanks for any suggestions. Christianity is NOT a religion. It is a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Get ranish to see if there are overlapping partitions. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.

Ok thanks a bunch jefro I'll do that and post back. Christianity is NOT a religion. It is a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Hey jefro thanks a lot for telling me about Ranish, I think it's going to work now. Ranish said nothing about overlapping partitions, although a few times I recall cfdisk saying a few times something like (paraphrasing) "The partition goes past the end of the disk" when I'd select certain partitions to format. Ranish also did not see the rest of my 40GB drive past 8GB. But the good thing about it is that with Ranish I was able to format the first 500MB of the 8GB it saw as a Linux swap partition, and then the next 5GB for the Linux partition. Then I was able to go into Windows 2000 and partition the rest of the 40GB so I can reload all of my files. "fdisk -l" now sees that there is 1 linux swap partition, and 1 ext2 partition! Now I'm recopying the ISO contents to a partition on my 40GB drive, and am going to re-attempt installation when it's finished. I'll post if it works or not. Christianity is NOT a religion. It is a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Ok Linux is now installed, however it won't boot to it. I get to the LILO boot loader, select Linux, it gets to the "Uncompressing Linux" message, then reboots. I can get to Windows 2000 fine. Christianity is NOT a religion. It is a relationship with Jesus Christ.

I haven't played with lilo much and not for a while at that. Repost on new thread on that subject. Normally it is how you answered the installers questions. Some distros I swear make a trick question out of it. See if your distro offers a repair floppy or cd that allows you to boot to it directly. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.

Ok thanks. Christianity is NOT a religion. It is a relationship with Jesus Christ.