Bug 61630
| Summary: | Installation Of Red Hat Linux | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <robertrichmond> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2002-03-23 14:11:03 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Hi All, I have a friend who has helped me out with this issue. The way I got around it was to remove the extended and vfat partitons using FDISK. Then when I installed it again, Linux saw the space and created the partions by itself. Works well now! Thanks Great, thanks! |
Description of Problem: Hi, I am trying to install Red Hat Linux for the first time. I am having difficulty though! ? I am brand new to linux, and have never used it before, so if you reply, can you please list the step by step process required to fix the problem? I get up to the partiton screen, when it asks me if I want to partion the hard drive or not..and I select no..I already have it partioned. (I have been reading other articles on this and it seems as if linux requires three partitons?? /boot, / , and <swap> ??) It then ends up on a screen that I can't get past. It looks like: hda1 hda5 29321MB 29321MB hdb1 58643MB + - /dev/hda | | | |-/dev/hda1 1 3738 29322 vfat NO | | | +-/dev/hda2 3739 7476 29322 extended | | | |_ /dev/hda5 3739 7476 29322 vfat NO | |-----/dev/hdb | |_ /dev/hdb1 1 7476 58643 NTFS/HPFS NO As you can see I have two hard drives. The first drive, Drive A, has a partion on it. The partition makes this drive into 2 29Gb hard drives. Windows 98 is installed on the first. The second (hda5??) is where I left space to install Linux. The Second drive (hdb1??) contains Windows XP Pro, and is in NTFS format. It is this screen where I am becoming unstuck. What do I need to do in order to keep installing Linux? Any Help is appreiciated! Thanks Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RedHat Linux version 7.2