[plug] RH7.1 Install problem

[Dwight Jackson]

Windows did have 2 partitions , as I had to reload my disk image if windows. I
have wiped it again and will start from scratch :^(

Simon Scott wrote:

>         Oh, I forgot to ask, how many windows partitions do you have?
>
>         Sounds very weird.
>
>         If you start again it would be the best idea I reckon.
>
>         From:   Dwight Jackson <djackson at transport.wa.gov.au> on 25-06-2001
> 10:04 AM
>         Please respond to plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
>         To:     plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
>         cc:
>
>         Subject:        Re: [plug] RH7.1 Install problem
>
>         Simon,
>
>         I think I understand what you are saying .  Linux has taken the
> wjhole drive
>         with Disk Druid. It has allocated an EXT  DOS partition with all my
> linux
>         partitions in it. It has also taken the whole drive in the EXT DOS
> partition. I
>         can't create anymore partitions because it thinks it has taken all
> the space.
>         Even though I KNOW i have 10G left . But it won't let me touch it. I
> didn't
>         tick the autofill button on any of my allocations( i think) . I will
> try what
>         you advised giving root so much and then swap space.
>         Thanks for replying. I think I will start from scratch and get
> windows working
>         again , then add Linux again
>
>         Simon Scott wrote:
>
>         >         OK, if you are using that curses based partitioner (ummm,
> forgotten
>         > its name) youll notice when you allocate there will be a switch to
> basically
>         > 'autofill'. If you have 14G unpartitioned (if its 14G free under
> windows you
>         > have to resize the windows partition) then adding, for example,
> the root
>         > partition with this set will use all 14G for the root partition.
> Thats ok
>         > tho, just keep adding partitions and the root partition will
> shrink. Play
>         > with it a bit, youll get the idea.
>         >
>         >         Probably the best and easiest way to partition until you
> get a bit
>         > more experience would be to partition 2x your ram as swap, and the
> rest as
>         > /.
>         >
>         >         If this isnt the problem, maybe provide us with a bit more
> info?
>         >
>         >         From:   Dwight Jackson <djackson at transport.wa.gov.au> on
> 22-06-2001
>         > 12:18 PM
>         >         Please respond to plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
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>         >         cc:
>         >
>         >         Subject:        [plug] RH7.1 Install problem
>         >
>         >         Trying to get RH7.1 running on my desktop. I also have
> win98
>         > running.
>         >         Everytime I try to partition the hard drive it says I have
> 14GB
>         >         remaining but when trying to allocate partitions for the
> mount
>         > points at
>         >         the top it says no free space. I have ghosted the PC and
> formatted
>         > the
>         >         disk. Then loaded my PC image and then tried to reload
> RH7.1 but
>         > still
>         >         the same problem. I'm really new to RH though RH7 was a
> breeze to
>         >         install. I had a look at the fdisk in RH7.1 as well but it
> will only
>         >         allow 4 primary partitons and I think win98 has one and I
> have an
>         >         extended partition for Novell.
>         >         My partition table looks like so:
>         >         <not set>    hda3    2047M Win95 FAT32
>         >         <not set>    hda5    1027M Win95 FAT32
>         >         <not set>    hda6    1019M Win95 FAT32
>         >         in Disk Druid and in FDISK it looks like this:
>         >         /tmp/hda1            262    522    2096482+    5
> Extended
>         >         /tmp/hda3                1    261    2096451+    b
> WIN95    FAT32
>         >         /tmp/hda5           262      392   1052226+    b    WIN95
> FAT32
>         >         /tmp/hda6          393       522    1044193+    b    WIN95
> FAT32
>         >
>         >         I have an extended partition with 2 logical drives in it.
> Now with
>         > Fdisk
>         >         how can I partition my filesystems on this hard drive??
>         >
>         >         Remembering I'm still fairly new to Linux any ideas??
>         >
>         >         Thanks,
>         >         DJ
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