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Since last 3 days I am trying to install RHL 7.1 on my pc but, every time my installation fails b'coz of failure of disk partitioning or due to system hanging, yet I'm not able to install RH on my pc & I'm still trying......
I have kept around 4GB of my disk space, to install linux on my m/c the total disk space I assign in the following way.
/boot 54 MB hda8 $ { what is the min space we can assign to /boot? } swap 133 MB hda9 / remaining all space hda10 ( around 3.7 GB )
$ { Do I need to create any other partion for the installation & for improving the performance, as I found the system is quite slow in the 1st installation? }
[ I read in one of the how-to (on the CD) that we can install linux with these 3 partitions, so I followed it ]
[ NOTE: I'm not able to partition the disk with Disk Druid as it is not setting up /boot partition saying that your boot partition is >1024 cylinders & can not be mounted, so I used fdisk instead ( after reading the info & help ) & I found it very easy. ]
o.k... On the very 1st day, the installation goes fine ( with little difficulties) but there was still some errors such as after shuting down the system it was giving an error -
* general protection fault : fooo cpu : 0 EIP : 0050 [<00008881>] [snip] . . . . . . . . . . [snip]
* dos partitions were not able to mount [ I tryed ' mount ' command along with editing /etc/fstab file but it didn't work, leaving the message vfat partitions can not be mounted ] $ { why it was not mounting the partitioning ? }
* I was not getting a proper screen resolution.
which I wanted to solve. So I finally desided to re-install RHL.
Sorry for inconveniance, SAMEER :)
On Jul 15, 2002 at 00:45, Sameer Shinde wrote:
/boot 54 MB hda8 $ { what is the min space we can assign to /boot? }
I'd advise at least 20MB. 54 is fine. (Why odd figure?)
swap 133 MB hda9 / remaining all space hda10 ( around 3.7 GB )
$ { Do I need to create any other partion for the installation & for improving the performance, as I found the system is quite slow in the 1st installation? }
Not necessary, but you might want to have 1.75GB /usr, 0.75GB /home, and 0.75GB /var in addition to the ones you have. Fiddle the figures.
Your swap should ideally be twice your RAM.
I'm not able to partition the disk with Disk Druid as it is not setting up /boot partition saying that your boot partition is >1024 cylinders & can
True.
"Satya" satyap@satya.virtualave.net replied, Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 2:01 PM
/boot 54 MB hda8 $ { what is the min space we
can assign to /boot? }
I'd advise at least 20MB. 54 is fine. (Why odd figure?)
I had assigned 50MB for /boot but it automatically took 54MB. I don't know how, may be as I was assigning with 'fdisk' & it may took it that way for compliting the cylinders or something like that.
swap 133 MB hda9 / remaining all space hda10 ( around 3.7 GB )
Your swap should ideally be twice your RAM.
Here again I give 127MB from my side but it took 133MB, may be same reason as above.
Thanks & Regards, SAMEER :)
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Sameer Shinde wrote:
Hi All,
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I have kept around 4GB of my disk space, to install linux on my m/cthe total disk space I assign in the following way.
/boot 54 MB hda8 $ { what is the min space we can assign to /boot? } swap 133 MB hda9 / remaining all space hda10 ( around 3.7 GB )
$ { Do I need to create any other partion for the installation & for improving the performance, as I found the system is quite slow in the 1st installation? }
Instead of having a single / partition, it would be better if you have different partitions for /usr, /var, & /home. So, you can use your 3.7 GB space for /, /usr, /var, and /home. You should allot maximum space for /usr, as most of your software installation will be on that partition.
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o.k... On the very 1st day, the installation goes fine ( with little difficulties) but there was still some errors such as after shuting down the system it was giving an error -
- general protection fault : fooo
cpu : 0 EIP : 0050 [<00008881>] [snip] . . . . . . . . . . [snip]
Nothing to worry about this. The kernel is trying to shut off your computer, but your BIOS doesn't seem to support auto-shut. You can avoid this, by making a small change in your /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt file. But all that later, first lets get your installation in place.
- dos partitions were not able to mount
[ I tryed ' mount ' command along with editing /etc/fstab file but it didn't work, leaving the message vfat partitions can not be mounted ] $ { why it was not mounting the partitioning ? }
Give the complete error output you get.
- I was not getting a proper screen resolution.
Use Xconfigurator.
HTH, Rajen.
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