[Preston] Re: Installing Fedora Core 1

[Garry Taylor]

What is happening now when you reboot the system.
Do you get the boot loader (I.e. lilo)
or
Does it boot into W2K

Normally with this type of install you would choose the MBR to install the 
boot loader too. This makes life simple for a small boot setup.

Have you tried simply repeating the process. Some times, things just don't 
work :)

With regards to the partion. You need ( in therory) a swap partion ( about 
500mb sould do ) and your ext2 (82) partion to install Linux too. With the 
setup you discribed, I can't see a problem.

On Tuesday 23 Mar 2004 10:55 am, Granville Cousins wrote:
> Hello PLUG,
>
> I am trying to install Fedora Core 1 from a set of CDs onto my Toshiba
> Satellite 2180CDT Laptop. I recently upgraded the hard disk to 20
> gigabytes and installed Windows 2000 on 16 gigabytes of which I
> divided this up into Primary 4 gigabytes for Windows and applications,
> 10 gigabytes for data,
> 1 gigabyte for Windows setup files and
> the other 4 gigabytes I partitioned for use with Fedora Core 1. The
> Linux partition I formatted to be Fat32.
>
> I now have booted my laptop with the Fedora Core 1 installation CD,
> this is after first using the integrity checking facility on all the 3
> CDs. Going along with the installation instructions up to where I am
> asked to choose where I want to install Fedora Core 1. A screen is
> displayed showing my already created partitions and I select the 4
> gigabyte partition which I have allocated to Fedora. I am then asked
> to define a root partition(/), which is required for installation of
> Fedora Core to continue. After clicking the OK button I then was
> returned to the display screen where I now choose Edit the partition
> on which I want to install Fedora Core. This is /dev/hda7. I select
> the mount point (/) and then Format partition as ext3. After choosing
> this and clicking Next a Partitioning Warnings window comes up which
> says "You have not specified a SWAP partition. Although not strictly
> required in all cases, it will significantly improve performance for
> most installations. Would you like to continue with your requested
> partitioning scheme?"  \i then click OK and proceed with the Format. I
> select to install the Boot loader on the DOS partition /dev/hda1 and
> choose a boot loader Password. I confirm this, click on OK, Enable
> firewall and the services allowed to pass through the firewall. I
> again click Next select English as the default language click Next and
> then select Europe/London Time Zone. I then enter the root password
> for the system and click on Next. I choose to install KDE desktop and
> the default packages. The rest is pretty straight forward but when the
> installation has almost completed the installation just stops and
> proceeds no further.
>
> My query is what should I have done with regard to partitioning the
> drive for Fedora Core 1 installation. In the past I have only
> installed Linux on a drive completely dedicated only to Linux. Now
> sharing this drive with Windows has brought up different problems.
> Usually the drive selected is partitioned totally by Linux. This is
> not the case here.
>
> Please could you give me some advise as to how to proceed from here and
> get Fedora Core 1 installed on my Laptop.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -- Love and Light,
>  Granville                          mailto:granville at yogawithgranville.com
>
>
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