Kirk....your designations of boot1, boot2....etc. Do partitions
exist with those names....not!? Ok, do me a favor. You say
Caldera is running, so go into a console in Caldera and type
fdisk /dev/hda then do a p command and capture the results and
post them. Ok?
Alan
Kirk McElhearn wrote:
>
> Thanks to all of you who helped me out be explaining how to handle this.
> I got the HD and installed it, so I thought I would send you a report.
>
> Installing the HD was easy. It came with partitioning software, and I
> set it up as follows:
>
> boot1
> boot2
> boot3
> boot4
> boot5
> swap
> backup
> data1
> data2
> data3
> data4
> data5
>
> I first created these partitions with the drive's software as dos
> partitions, then, under Mandrake, used Disk Drake to change them all to
> Linux partitions, with the exception of the backup partition - I want to
> be able to access this from Windows as well.
>
> So, with the HD set up, I tried to install a few different distributions.
> I left Mandrake on the old HD for the meantime, and tried to install the
> following on the new HD:
>
> Caldera OpenLinux
> Corel Linux
> Suse
> Red Hat 6.2 beta
>
> Unfortunately, this did not go as planned. Caldera was the only one I
> could fully install. It started up, but there was no option during the
> install to create a boot disk (I don't want to use Lilo, because of the
> hassles each time I need to install Windows anew, and I am a bit
> uncomfortable with liloconf files - I found a floppy based boot loader
> called gag that seems to do the trick). I was not able to reboot into
> Caldera because of this. I guess it is there, on one of the partitions;
> I need to see if I can get a boot floppy from the original CD.
>
> Then I tried Corel Linux. This was an instant failure, since it only
> recognized my HD as having two partitions - one of 32 megs (boot1) and
> the other having 20 gigs (it is a 20.4 gig HD).
>
> Next try was Suse. This did not work either, because the Suse installer
> would only let me install it on contiguous partitions. This seems to be
> quite stupid, actually, and I can't figure out any reason for it, but
> that's the way it is.
>
> I also tried a RedHat 6.2 beta CD I have from a magazine. That didn't go
> very far in the install, it would not recognize my CD-Rom drive. It gave
> a list of only a few CD-Roms, and I tried them all, but none of them
> worked.
>
> All in all, I am pleased that the HD questions were so easy to solve, but
> very disappointed that I had so many problems installing. The proverbial
> difficulties in Linux installation are real, except for Caldera, and, of
> course, Mandrake. I am trying to get a few other distributions to see
> what happens, but, all in all, I am quite surprised that I was unable to
> go any further.
>
> Kirk
>
> vice versa
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