harsh wrote:
9)Choose /boot ext3 type in space type 100or200or300 MB,though more than enough 10)Make swap partition with 2 * ram size. 11)Make / partition with Fill up to maximumsize option.
/boot - 50MB (more than enough) swap - 128M(again more than enough assuming you have 256M or more of RAM), the 2*RAM rule was written in the howtos in say 1997-8 when people used 16M-32M RAM
12)Click Next 13)Select Full Installation while selecting packages 14)Make Grub as your Primary boot loader 15)The watch linux getting installed. 16)Next everything is self explanatory.
Note:-i don't remember but /boot should be from 1-1024 cylinder range so this might cause the problem,may be someone could guide you here.
That was a problem with old BIOSes....Grub has no probs booting from post 1024cylinders...., neither do new versions of lilo. FWIW, try using the "lba32" option if you use lilo..
got stuck & given up a on Linux installation. I've got CDs of Knoppix 3.1, :( PCQLinux 8.0 & ELX 2.0, but I could never get past the partitioning stage with any of them. Also all published articles on installing these packages barely have a sentence relating to partitioning, which has added to the frustation.
People writing HOWTOs usually assume that partitioning is something that the user has to learn. For some decent tutorials on partition, try the XOSL/Ranish partition manager page, its http://www.ranish.com (IIRC), and this page has a nice free partitioner...boot from a floppy and partition your hard disk...Better read up on the docs at the above site in the first place.
Swap. Is that so difficult? Is it possible to get some guidance in simple English on how to do this. I need a "Select this then click on that & then click OK" kind of guidance, such as which Windows has (BTW why is Linux so much harder to install than Windows. Is Windows smarter?)Ooops, *now*
Fortunately or unfortunately, the installer for msot distros is not very much like what you are asking for, though you might want to check out the latest Mandrake and SuSE...(suse is more eccentric as a distro though).