Dear Friends,
Yesterday I tried to install Red Hat Linux (RHL) 7.1 on my m/c. Everything goes fine abt detecting kbd & mouse. After that I start with system installer with the workstation mode for the installation. The next step was the Disk Partitioning.
Let me tell u 1st abt my disk partitioning. I have 20GB hdd with 4 partiton of approx 4GB with FAT32 (total 16GB) for windows & remaining 4GB is left free for Linux.
Drive Disk Space SetAS C 4GB pri dos D 4GB logical | In E 4GB logical | Extended DOS F 4GB logical |
& remaining 4GB is free for Linux.
I AM UNABLE TO INSTALL LINUX ON THIS FREE SPACE. I'm STUCK UP AT THIS PLACE.
Here the Auto partitioning failed (in workstation mode, other options r server, laptop & custom mode) giving the resion that, " There is not sufficient disk space in order to automatically partition your disk space. You will need to manually partition your disk for RHL to install." Giving 2 options for disk partioning 1st manually partition with Disk Druid & 2nd with fdisk (expert mode)
The Disk Druid shows the following chart -------------------------------------------------------------------- Partitions Mount Point Device Requested Actual Type <not set> hda1 3898M 3898M win95 FAT32 <not set> hda5 3859M 3859M win95 FAT32 <not set> hda6 3859M 3859M win95 FAT32 <not set> hda7 3961M 3961M win95 FAT32
Add Edit Delete Reset Make RAID device (BTW wht is RAID) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Drive Summery Device Geom [c/h/s] Total(M) Free(M) Used(M) used (%) hda [2481/255/63] 19461M 3883M 15578M 80 %
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If I try to mount the entire free disk space (3883MB) as linux native with mount point as / (root) then the system gives the message that, " There are currently unallocated partition(s) in the list of requested partitions. The unallocated partition(s) are as shown below, along with the reason they are not allocated.
/ Not enough free space "
...& the installation get aborted & I need to reboot the system.
How can I come out of this? & make the partition for root swap & home
2nd thing if I try to assign swap partition (let it b 1mb or 128 mb) from the free space of hda device the Disk Druid chart show Requested is 128MB & Actual is 2047MB & free space remains is only 1836MB. The same happend even if i assign swap of just 1MB. here only requested mem changes & other parameters remains same.
Why is this happening?
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P.S. Can anybody show me the actual installation of the RHL 7.1 with disk partitioning on his/her pc.