,--[ On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 09:03:08AM +0530, अनुज Anuj Singh wrote:
[snipped] | > >> On 30/12/2007, ???? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > >> | > >>> Hello , | > >>> I have freebsd6.2 installed with Fedora core 7 and rhe4. | > >>> I am installing rhel5 , when linux installation process starts I get an | > >>> error of /dev/hdc1 busy , can not report to kernel about partition | > >>> layout. In the past I installed linux then FreeBSD. | > >>> Is there some method that rhel5 installation can skip /dev/hdc1 | > >>> (freebsd slice) ? saving my freebsd installation You get /dev/hdc1 busy error. At which step in installation, you get /dev/hdc1 busy error, hmm...? Are you trying to remove '/dev/hdc1' (FreeBSD slice), if yes, then you'll get error, and you probably need to remove FreeBSD partitions (present in slice) first. [snipped] | Hi, | 1. I am trying to fresh install over single disk. | 2. I have FreeBSD6.2 slice on first primary partition of the disk. There should be absolutely no problem in installing RHEL5, even GNU/Linux can read FreeBSD disklabels (and partitions) without any problem :) . | can I have a look at your partition table ? Here is mine, I'm running Ubuntu Linux, which is installed after FreeBSD. Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00083e09 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 2611 20972826 a5 FreeBSD /dev/sdb2 2612 9229 53159085 83 Linux /dev/sdb3 9230 9254 200812 83 Linux Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb4 9255 19457 81955597+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sdb5 9255 15373 49150836 83 Linux /dev/sdb6 15374 19329 31776538+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb7 19330 19457 1028128+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris | I have IDE hard disk. Mine is SATA disk, but that should make no difference :) | Regards. | Anuj singh "anugunj" HTH -- Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- --
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