RE: [newbie] Installing 7.1 hangs at formatting boot partition
Thanks to everybody for their responses... For the record what I had to do was use 7.0 installation CD to setup how I wanted the drive partitioned then exited the installation after that step and rebooted with the 7.1 CD and everything worked from there. I noticed that using auto-allocate on 7.1 it put the swap partition at the front of the disk, however 7.0 put the swap in the middle with the /boot partion in the front. This might have been the problem as I think about it more. Does the /boot parition have to be located at the first physical part of the drive? -Original Message- From: Dennis Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 9:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing 7.1 hangs at formatting boot partition I had the same problem when I tried to do an upgrade. I solved the problem by installing on a second hard drive, going to diskdrake on the second hd, formatting the first hd as one partition. Once that was done I went back to the first hd and did a clean install. Did not use the hd optimizations... repeat, did not use the optimizations. Every thing went just hunky dory. This is one solution if you have the space on a second hd. Otherwise, I am at a loss to help. Dennis -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842
Re: [newbie] Installing 7.1 hangs at formatting boot partition
If there is still a manual install on the CD, then use it. When you come to fdisk, use fdisk to delete all partitions (except your Windows, if you have that on the same drive) and save the results. Now shut down, and run your install routine. I had a problem like this with some distro (I think it was Corel.) Not guaranteed, but it does answer your question! :-) (If there is no manual install anymore, you'll probably have to find an old distro, or perhaps d/l tomsrtbt and use that.) At 07:39 AM 09/26/2000 -0500, Mark Johnson wrote: I had 7.0 initially and decided to upgrade to 7.1 via a complete reinstall. I did the Custom - Development install type and chose the auto-allocate feature for partitioning the drive because I wanted everything blasted away. However, installation hangs when trying to format the boot partition every time (I tried about 3 times). I finally tried the automatic installation, the formatting of the partition went fine but when it got to the actually installation of the OS in hung while trying to install the LinuxConf packages (if I had to guess this is about the spot on the disk the the original boot partition was and got hung up again...). What up here, why would it be hanging on the formatting of the partitions? Is there a way I can make sure all the boot information is stripped off the drive and that it's entirely clean before doing the install?
RE: [newbie] Installing 7.1 hangs at formatting boot partition
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug McGarrett Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 1:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing 7.1 hangs at formatting boot partition If there is still a manual install on the CD, then use it. When you come to fdisk, use fdisk to delete all partitions (except your Windows, if you have that on the same drive) and save the results. Now shut down, and run your install routine. I had a problem like this with some distro (I think it was Corel.) Not guaranteed, but it does answer your question! :-) (If there is no manual install anymore, you'll probably have to find an old distro, or perhaps d/l tomsrtbt and use that.) At 07:39 AM 09/26/2000 -0500, Mark Johnson wrote: I had 7.0 initially and decided to upgrade to 7.1 via a complete reinstall. I did the Custom - Development install type and chose the auto-allocate feature for partitioning the drive because I wanted everything blasted away. However, installation hangs when trying to format the boot partition every time (I tried about 3 times). I finally tried the automatic installation, the formatting of the partition went fine but when it got to the actually installation of the OS in hung while trying to install the LinuxConf packages (if I had to guess this is about the spot on the disk the the original boot partition was and got hung up again...). What up here, why would it be hanging on the formatting of the partitions? Is there a way I can make sure all the boot information is stripped off the drive and that it's entirely clean before doing the install? To correct your partition table to original state: A) Insert a DOS boot disk and reboot your computer B) At the A:\ prompt, type in: fdisk /MBR C) This will bring the partition table back to its original state D) Remove the boot disk and insert your Linux installation CD E) Shutdown your computer and restart your computer F) Install Mandrake 7.1 Good Luck! Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Installing 7.1 hangs at formatting boot partition
At 26-09-2000 07:39 AM, you wrote: What up here, why would it be hanging on the formatting of the partitions? Is there a way I can make sure all the boot information is stripped off the drive and that it's entirely clean before doing the install? Mark, Are you using a disk that is in use for sometime ? (Might have bad sectors). When I try to install RedHat6.0 into a 'half dead' harddisk I got what you described above. With new disk, I install, uninstall, reinstall - no problems, just 0.0002 cents of info. Cheers
