James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Gus Wirth wrote:
herb Kornfeld wrote:
I am trying to install Redhat on a windows machine where I am not
the adminstrator. I want this computer to be 100% redhat. I put in
my install disk and press next when the "Welcome to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux" gui displays I get an error saying "Partioning
failed: Could not allocate partitions as primary partitions. Press
'OK' to reboot your system".
Do I need to manually reformat the disk first using Disk druid or
fdisk? If so, any suggestions.
Do I need the adminsistrator to do something on the Windows side
before installing Redhat?
Red Hat is being nice to you. Because MS Windows is on the disk and
has taken over everything, the Red Hat installer won't wipe it out.
What it needs is either some free space to create a partition or an
empty disk.
Because you said you wanted the whole machine to be exclusively Red
Hat, the easiest thing to do is wipe the partition table. You can do
this by booting with your Red Hat disk, and at the prompt type
"rescue" (no quotes) You can see a little more info by using F3
(function key three) when the boot prompt appears.
When you are in rescue mode, the system is running off the CDROM and
memory. At the command prompt, you can type:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=2
This will wipe out the MBR (Master Boot Record) and the partition
table. When you are done reboot the machine and do a normal install
from the CDROM.
You may want to search the KPLUG archives for Carl Lowenstein's notes
on setting up logical volume management, especially the part about
avoiding making the root partition part of a volume group.
I thought it was the /boot partition that couldn't be part of a volume
group.
I've never had much luck searching the archives. Do you have a link?
I just went to the website to look... I can't even find the archives.
On
http://www.kernel-panic.org/
scroll down to
Mailing Lists
find/click the link
new web interface found here
getting you to
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Find/click on the link
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getting you to
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In the first paragraph find the line
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Click on the "KPLUG-List Archives" link
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Regards,
..jim
Wow! dbos speaks 5.8 years from the future!!!
http://www.kernel-panic.org/pipermail/kplug-list/2012-December/thread.html
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