Using Red Hat 6.1 tried to install a paritionless installation to test to see of Red Hat 6.1 and my DELL Latitude CPi Model: PPL would work before commiting the system to Linux. The DELL, running Win/98 has 6GB hard drive, 3.19GB used by Win/98, 2.70GB free -- as window reports on the disc properties. Additionally has 128MB, DELL 24x CD-ROM, DELL floppy, DELL 10/100 LAN+56K Modem Cardbus by 3COM model 3CCFEM656, DELL Logitech 2 button mouse (or touch pad), LCD screen (Neomagic MagicMedia 256AV, I think) and an optional LS120 floppy drive united (not used in this configuration). I boot from the CD and perform an EXPERT installation. I get all the way through to the Red Hat GUI Installation and use Disk Druid to choose the DOS (FAT) Partition to define as "/" (as shown on section B.2.2 Using Disc Druid). The following is displayed: Mount Point Device Requested Actual Type <not set> hda1 6047M 6047M WIN95 FAT32 <not set> hda2 133M 133M 0x84 Drive Geom Total Free Used Used % hda 789/255/63 6189M 8M 6181M 99% I highlight hda1 and select EDIT. Then in the next window it shows similar to figure B-2 Editing a DOS (FAT) Partition (except the size is 6047). I type in the "/" for root and click on OK. I get the error message "The mount point is illegal. System partitions must be on Linux Native Partitions". This is where I stop. I have ordered the latest Red Hat version, but it will take some time for me to get it. Is this a mistake on my part assuming that Red Hat will just create a file to install the Linux system under the DOS file type and pump the directory structure into it (much like some databases use a single file and directly read/write a pseudo structure into it)? There is a small confussion that shows up in the Disk Druid GUI window -- it does not show the spare space that the Win/98 showed for the Win98 FAT32 system. Do I misunderstand the Disk Druid display? My only reason to test this way before wiping out Windows and doing a standard Linux partitioning and install, was to see that Linux would work on a DELL laptop. Any sage advice? Cheers, Robert Stelmack stelmack
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partitionless installs first appeared in Red Hat Linux 6.2; and is not an option in 6.1 ... please let us know if you are unable to perform a partitionless install using 6.2 ... thanks for your report!