Re: [newbie] installing failed :-(
Claus Atzenbeck wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, J D wrote: did you partition your hdd? or do you have an empty hdd? are you running any other os's? if you can, provide a little more info, and we'll see what we can think of. Thanks for you mail, also to Eric! Yes, there were no partitions available. I had good luck to have also SuSE here in order to format my hard drive. How would I be able to format my hard drive without any tool except Mandrake CD-ROM? The graphical installer provides partitioning hard drives befor installing, not so the text installer... :-( If you have SuSE installed, then boot into this OS and create the filesystems or partitions for your Mandrake configuration using the fdisk available with SuSE. Don't format the filesystems (the Mandrake install program should at least be able to do this); only create the partitions you want. If you want Mandrake on a single, large filesystem, then you'll only need to create one partition with fdisk. In fdisk, choose the m option, to see the available commands. Adding or creating a new partition is probably unchanged and n. Are you sure the Mandrake text install doesn't provide partition creation? Check again. Also, why isn't the gui install not working? Where does it fail? mike Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. -- George Bernard Shaw
Re: [newbie] installing failed :-(
Claus Atzenbeck wrote: I was trying to install Mandrake 7.02 on a Pentium-S machine. I don't get the graphical installer, probably because my memory is to less (16MB) or my graphic card is not good enough. I don't mind. It is running well until the point where Mandrake is supposed to ask me how to format the hard drive. Instead of this dialoge I only get the message: Error An error occurred no available partitions What is wrong?? What can I do? Thanks a lot for your help! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de [He] took me into his library and showed me his books, of which he had a complete set. -- Ring Lardner is there a Linux partition available ? Did you make it ? Eric
Re: [newbie] installing failed :-(
did you partition your hdd? or do you have an empty hdd? are you running any other os's? if you can, provide a little more info, and we'll see what we can think of. later man From: Claus Atzenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Listing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] installing failed :-( Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:52:46 +0200 (CEST) I was trying to install Mandrake 7.02 on a Pentium-S machine. I don't get the graphical installer, probably because my memory is to less (16MB) or my graphic card is not good enough. I don't mind. It is running well until the point where Mandrake is supposed to ask me how to format the hard drive. Instead of this dialoge I only get the message: Error An error occurred no available partitions What is wrong?? What can I do? Thanks a lot for your help! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de [He] took me into his library and showed me his books, of which he had a complete set. -- Ring Lardner Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] installing failed :-(
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, J D wrote: did you partition your hdd? or do you have an empty hdd? are you running any other os's? if you can, provide a little more info, and we'll see what we can think of. Thanks for you mail, also to Eric! Yes, there were no partitions available. I had good luck to have also SuSE here in order to format my hard drive. How would I be able to format my hard drive without any tool except Mandrake CD-ROM? The graphical installer provides partitioning hard drives befor installing, not so the text installer... :-( Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. -- George Bernard Shaw
Re: [newbie] installing failed :-(
Claus Atzenbeck wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, J D wrote: did you partition your hdd? or do you have an empty hdd? are you running any other os's? if you can, provide a little more info, and we'll see what we can think of. Thanks for you mail, also to Eric! Yes, there were no partitions available. I had good luck to have also SuSE here in order to format my hard drive. How would I be able to format my hard drive without any tool except Mandrake CD-ROM? The graphical installer provides partitioning hard drives befor installing, not so the text installer... :-( Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. -- George Bernard Shaw I utilise the TEXT installation of mandrake (redhat) to do anything. In this mode you can partition your HD with FDISK and DISKDRUID : first : FDISK to do the partition; primary and extended. second: DISKDRUID making mount-points. After this go to the next menu who ask what mount-point you'll format; the first time ALL of course. Create at least following partitions and mount-points: /boot (must be primary partition.About 32M, to preserve several kernels, starting under the 1024st cylinder ) /( my case also a primary, +- 600-800M) 1 extended for the rest of your HD divided in: /usr(the big one, my case 3G) /usr/local (needed to preserve own data and programs; no reformat when a reinstallation has to be done) /home (not to be reformat when a reinstallation has to be done, so you preserve your locally work) /reserve (to allocate space for later use) So, this what I had done. Good luck. Eric
