HI EVERYBODY,
Here is a very basic question (but I am really stuck!! :| )
I have been trying to install red hat 7.2 on a win98 machine. Everything goes fine until the partitioning screen comes up. I have a hdd of 37 gb and I have repartitioned it to 27+10 with FIPS and want to use the new 10 GB partition (win95 FAT32) for linux. When I choose automatic partitioning screen, it declines to do that (space not available).
Next when I come to the manual partioning screen, I cant proceed their either. When I select the hard drive partition of my choice and try to add new partitions (root, swap and boot), I get the same errors, space not available. And it woulnd't let me proceed.
Once I have done partitionless install with linux 7.0 on the same machine without having hard drive partitioned by fips. And it worked fine. Unfortunately, as it seems, Red Hat 7.2 doesnt support partitionless installations.
Any comments, suggestions, advises, must do's, undo's??????????
Greetings, Vikram
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On Jan 18, 2002 at 15:24, Vikram .. wrote:
I have repartitioned it to 27+10 with FIPS and want to use the new 10 GB partition (win95 FAT32) for linux. When I choose automatic partitioning screen, it declines to do that (space not available).
You need to delete the 10GB partition and create partitions within the 10 GB space (unless that's an extended partition).
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Vikram .. wrote:
I have repartitioned it to 27+10 with FIPS and want to use the new 10 GB partition (win95 FAT32) for linux. When I choose automatic partitioning screen, it declines to do that (space not available).
I had similar prob while installing RHL 7.1 on a 15+5 hard disk. I guess the problem is that LILO must reside below some specified cylinder (1024 if I'm not wrong ). Now some BIOS's ( older ones ) don't support booting beyond that limit.
So disk druid complains. For installing anyway use fdisk to partition the disk and proceed as usual. I guess this should work ( At least it worked for me :-)
Hi,
Can you use fdisk and tell me the no of cylinders that it shows to you. For example for my 10.2 GB fdisk shows 1245 cylinders. For 8.4 GB it is 1024. You can calculate for your configuration and check if that fdisk shows that same no of cylinders. I had read this in a book where it told me that the author once had to use fdisk to set the no of cylinders to a proper value and then the disk druid worked well. And before setting it to a proper value it was giving similar problems as you are facing.
Bye.
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-----Original Message----- From: linuxers-admin@mm.ilug-bom.org.in [mailto:linuxers-admin@mm.ilug-bom.org.in] On Behalf Of Vikram .. Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 12:54 AM To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Red Hat 7.2 Installation: Partitioning?????
HI EVERYBODY,
Here is a very basic question (but I am really stuck!! :| )
I have been trying to install red hat 7.2 on a win98 machine. Everything goes fine until the partitioning screen comes up. I have a hdd of 37 gb and I have repartitioned it to 27+10 with FIPS and want to use the new 10 GB
partition (win95 FAT32) for linux. When I choose automatic partitioning
screen, it declines to do that (space not available).
Next when I come to the manual partioning screen, I cant proceed their either. When I select the hard drive partition of my choice and try to add new partitions (root, swap and boot), I get the same errors, space not available. And it woulnd't let me proceed.
Once I have done partitionless install with linux 7.0 on the same machine without having hard drive partitioned by fips. And it worked fine. Unfortunately, as it seems, Red Hat 7.2 doesnt support partitionless installations.
Any comments, suggestions, advises, must do's, undo's??????????
Greetings, Vikram
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Well, with the new versions of LILO which include 32-bit LBA extensions, you don't need to be bothered about the Cylinder Limit problem. The new LILO should be included in RH 7.2. If you're facing the problem, what you can do is create Linux partitions using some other partitioning util like Partition Magic or Ranish Partition Manager (BTW, Ranish is free). Then, while installing linux just assign the proper mount points to respective partitions. Install lilo on First Boot Sector and not MBR. CREATE A BOOT DISK, to be on the safer side. And install linux as you would do otherwise. If your bootdisk fails or gets corrupted, there are boot images available on the RH cd under images folder. Copy them on a windows partition and use loadlin to boot into linux by giving proper root partition as a kernel parameter. Use the loadlin documentation for further details. Remember, you need to boot into linux at least once.
Once into linux, edit lilo.conf. You'd be having an entry called "linear". Just replace it with "lba32". If you don't have such an entry, add it as a primary entry, i.e. before the "image= ... " entries. Make sure that you change the "boot = " entry to point it to the MBR. That is, make it boot = /dev/hdx
where /dev/hdx is your active boot device like hda for primary master, hdb for primary slave. Mostly, it will be /dev/hda.
Then overwrite lilo using /sbin/lilo. Now onwards you don't need any other bootloader.
I guess, this helps.
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----- Original Message ----- From: Amish K. Munshi munshiamish@fastmail.fm To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 11:35 PM Subject: RE: [ILUG-BOM] Red Hat 7.2 Installation: Partitioning?????
Hi,
Can you use fdisk and tell me the no of cylinders that it shows to you. For example for my 10.2 GB fdisk shows 1245 cylinders. For
8.4
GB it is 1024. You can calculate for your configuration and check if that fdisk shows that same no of cylinders. I had read this in a book where it told me that the author once had to use fdisk to set the no of cylinders to a proper value and
then
the disk druid worked well. And before setting it to a proper value
it
was giving similar problems as you are facing.
Bye.
______________________________________________________________________ __
_
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++
+++ Feel at home at Linux. Sue it, Praise it, Envy it, but use it since
it
is the only thing that works.
Amish K. Munshi. Email :- amishmunshi@yahoo.com
If I am online then find me at http://amishmunshi.linux-dude.net
Registered Linux User # 254593 @ http://counter.li.org ICQ 85730949
______________________________________________________________________ __
__
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++
+++
-----Original Message----- From: linuxers-admin@mm.ilug-bom.org.in [mailto:linuxers-admin@mm.ilug-bom.org.in] On Behalf Of Vikram .. Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 12:54 AM To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Red Hat 7.2 Installation: Partitioning?????
HI EVERYBODY,
Here is a very basic question (but I am really stuck!! :| )
I have been trying to install red hat 7.2 on a win98 machine. Everything goes fine until the partitioning screen comes up. I have a hdd of
37 gb
and I have repartitioned it to 27+10 with FIPS and want to use the new
10 GB
partition (win95 FAT32) for linux. When I choose automatic
partitioning
screen, it declines to do that (space not available).
Next when I come to the manual partioning screen, I cant proceed
their
either. When I select the hard drive partition of my choice and try
to
add new partitions (root, swap and boot), I get the same errors, space
not
available. And it woulnd't let me proceed.
Once I have done partitionless install with linux 7.0 on the same machine without having hard drive partitioned by fips. And it worked fine. Unfortunately, as it seems, Red Hat 7.2 doesnt support partitionless installations.
Any comments, suggestions, advises, must do's, undo's??????????
Greetings, Vikram
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