Bryce,
Might I suggest that you not go to all that trouble with making a huge DOS
partition before starting theLinux partitioning and just boot from the CD
with a raw disk and use diskdrake when it comes up in the intall. Another
thing you may want to do is make the first partition something other than
the Swap partition. Make it anything but Swap, and also make that first
one a primary. All the others can be extended partitions. Make the Swap
the last thing on the drive.
Do an expert install and you should probably, if you're not already, do
the developer install as well. I think you will find that this will work
out quite nicely. I've been doing it this way for quite a long time and
each and every install is flawless and error free.
--
Mark
Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle...
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Surprisingly on Wed, 1 Nov 2000 Brice Ruth had this to say!
> In order:
>
> 1) I've tried the 'automatic' option - I get the error.
> 2) I create the swap, then root, then usr (I like having swap first on
> the disk)
> 3) They are defined properly as swap and ext2 - I actually wanted the
> usr partition to be ReiserFS, so I was trying that at first, but
> eventually went with all ext2
> 4) It isn't a dual boot system - just plain jane all for Linux ... it'll
> be a test bed. It has an ATAPI cdrom drive, an Award BIOS, and the
> motherboard is Biostar's M7MKE.
> 5) I've used RedHat primarily in the past couple years ... started out
> with Slackware 3.0 (painful). I used Debian for a bit ... though I
> almost gave up during the install process on that one ... and I've used
> SuSE a bit, but never installed it. That's on x86 platforms ... I've
> also installed/used RedHat on SPARC/Alpha and mklinux and linuxppc on
> Mac platforms. Good enough? :)
>
> Side note 1: I've gone in with a win98 bootdisk & fdisk /mbr to clear
> the boot record from any previous junk that might have been in it, I've
> removed all the partition info from within fdisk & created one huge
> win98 partition (non-formatted) ... when the installer hit that, it
> asked if I wanted to remove windows & proceed, I said yes, and it did
> some stuff on the drive then popped up that same exact error message ...
>
> Side note 2: RedHat 7.0 has finished installing successfully and it
> seems to be running fine (I'm in X now ...) however, I don't want RedHat
> 7.0 ... this was just a test, so please keep helping me :)
>
> Regards & TIA!
> Brice
>
> Larry Marshall wrote:
> >
> > > Everything goes along fine until we're in the stage where the hard drive
> > > gets partitioned. I have a 6G drive and I wanted to partition it
> > > manually ... so I do. 128M swap, 512M root, the rest goes to usr.
> > > Don't comment on how intelligent or stupid my partitioning scheme is,
> > > please - that shouldn't be at issue here :)
> >
> > You suggest we shouldn't comment on the very subject that seems to be
> > causing the problem. I will however, though briefly. Is this the order
> > in which you're setting up these partitions? Are they defined properly as
> > ext2 and swap? Obviously something is wrong in your setup or you wouldn't
> > be getting errors and having problems. If you could provide a bit more
> > detail of what you're doing (partition order, type, are you dual-booting?,
> > etc) might help. Since you say you're an experienced Linux user, what
> > Linuxes have you used?
> >
> > Cheers --- Larry
>
>
