Sean Goh wrote: > ok i managed to get past that screen. I'm presented with another > screen where it asks me to select which partition to format. By > default it's selected as both and i click Ok. Then it says something > like , "Formatting partition hda1" it has been on like this for 1.5 > hours already. The hard drive access light has been on always. Problem > is i don't see any status bar so i don't know how much more do i have > to wait. Any idea what i should do? > I use text installation coz when i use the standard install, it gives > me 2 white vertical lines across the screen just after it probes my > ports. > > Sean > > John Richard Smith wrote: > >>> >> Does sound as though you are having fun and games Sean. >> >> Seems as though there are some basic terms your not familiar with. >> Mount points are essential to any linux system, in the above example >> the installer is asking you to choose which partitions to create and >> install the Linux OS on , and to mount them. The absolute minimum is >> a base root partition recognised by the symbol, / , and a swap >> partition , recognised by the symbol, /swap, and the swap partition >> is your linux equivelant of Virtual memory that in windblows exists >> as a file (which can expand within predefined limits) whereas in >> linux it's a defined as a partition. Obviously you don't yet >> understand the need to create these partitions and define them as per >> the installer is requesting you do. >> >> It is hard to advise someone when they don't give you their hardrive >> details, such as harddrive size, number and size of existing >> partitions etc etc , but since you got as far as the disc drake >> partition tool you are well on the way to a Linux OS. >> >> Diskdrake gives you an easy visual display of your harddrive(s) . Use >> it's graphical tools to make and define the partitions you want. >> >> Hope the above helps. >> >> John >> > Well there is something wrong. Formatting in DrakX is a zippy thing, it takes a few seconds or so. The essential thing here is to make absolutely sure that it is formatting the correct partitions, so when you were in the diskdrake , you wrote down the harddrive partition number, such as your example hda1, that is the first partition on any linux harddrive numbering system, it may or may not be where you chose to intall your linux OS . The main thing is to make sure that both your linux base / partition and your linux /swap partition are formatted, then go on and proceed with the rest.
>I use text installation coz when i use the standard install, it gives me 2 white >vertical lines across the screen just after it probes my ports I see , I've never had this problem myself, do you happen to have a usb mouse by any chance ? So you have been partitioning with a text install , presumeably you do have the screen , but you have to "Alt-letter" ( the little _ under the first character of what ever choice you wish to make) in order to make a choice.A nuisance but still useable. I still don't know why you get those two white verticle lines.This is real early on in the install during hardware detection, and it does this because it doesn't like something to do with either your serial, parallel or usb ports .You are on M8.2 , and we know it doesn't like a usb mouse.If you do have a usb mouse , propably the easiest way . at least , what I would do, is replace the usb mouse with a parallel port or serial mouse for the install and afterwards on desktop I would hot plug the usb mouse. Sean, I have kept this on list, because I do not have a monopoly of wisdom. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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