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Partitioning Help
spinningheel4242:
Ok, I need some help installing RH8 on my computer. I have a 38 gig hd with the first 28 gigs windoze, 4.5 gigs unassigned, and 5.5 gigs fat32 backup. I want to install RH8 but I keep getting a message (when I am in the format/partitioning screen)
*/root not found*
I have have tried a variety of things but nothing seems to work. I used partition magic 8 to create the space from my fat32 drive. I tried to create a Ext3 partition but RH8 didn't like that either.
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voidmain:
Does the FAT32 partition currently have data on it? If so, can you at least temporarily move the data to your Windows partition?
The reason I ask about the FAT partition is because I would delete it until after RedHat is installed. So you have one large Windows partition and the rest free space. Then when you install Linux don't use up all the space for your Linux partitions, leave however much you want for the FAT32 parition. Or move the FAT32 partition so it immediately follows your Windows partition leaving free space at the end of the drive.
It shouldn't matter as RH should be able to install between the paritions. But then the message you are getting doesn't make any sense to me. How far did you get into the install? Did you make the partitions as I said in my previous note? That is, the 256-512MB swap partition, the 50MB /boot partition and the 5GB / parition?
[ November 03, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
spinningheel4242:
Ok, I think I got it to work. I have 28 gigs fat32 that has windoze 98. I also have 4.5 gigs free space which I allocated to logical, ext3. I also created a swap partition. The other 5.5 gig partition that I have (called backup) does have data on it.
Anyways, I was installing RH8 and got to the partition screen again. This time, though, it erased the data on the linux partitions and created its own. No errors. It seemed to install but I have boot magic installed and upon reboot, couldn't get into Linux. I have tried everything with bootmagic so I think I will now try using my Linux boot disk. If not, I will uninstall boot magic and reinstall or update RH8 to include grub.
Off to the races I go...
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voidmain:
You *must* install either GRUB or LILO in order to boot Linux (even if you are using boot magic as your main boot loader) as I said in my post in the other forum you started. Please read them. Again, why do you want to use Boot Magic? It will work, but you at least have to install LILO on the Linux partition boot record.
You don't have to reinstall just to install the boot loader like you do in brain dead Windows. You can just use your boot disk to boot the system and then do a GRUB or LILO install.
spinningheel4242:
Ok, I stayed up late last night and reinstalled Linux with grub. I guess I should have waited to see the responses...lol
I also got rid of Boot Magic...what a piece of crap. As it stands now, Redhat8 is installed and works great. Well, with the exception of my sound not working (i have a turtle beach montego with isn't listed as supported hardware on redhats site). so now my search is for a remedy to my silent computer...any suggests would be appreciated.
Oh ya, another linux distro (lycoris) was able to get my soundcard to work...is there a way to use that linux disk to get the drivers etc for redhat and if yes, how??
Thanks
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