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.
How do you search the archives for Carl's "notes on setting up logical
volume management"?
After I finally found out how to even find the archives, I don't find
any kind of search tool. And the Subject line of the emails containing
the "notes" (to which you refer) do not mention "setting up logical
volume management".
I happened to find them by scanning the subject lines for LVM (after
going back a little more than a year).
Why is there not an easier way to "search" the archives? I don't find
it very practical unless the Subject line contains a hint of what you
want. And even that is not very efficient.
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