installing fedora core 4

[Timothy Murphy]

Carroll Grigsby wrote:

>>     i already have windows 2000...i tried to install fedora core 4...but
>> an error message came like this...
>>     "The partition table on device hda was unreadable.To create new
>> partition it must be reinitialized"
>>      i have many mp3  songs and imp data in the hard disk...i dont wnat
>>      to
>> lose any data...and also i dont want to repartition...is there any other
>> way to overcome this error....please help me ...

> You _will_ have to do some repartitioning unless you have some
> unformatted space on your hard drive.

I agree with your advice -
but the error message, if it was anything like that reported,
was seriously misleading.

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