[Preston] Re: Installing Fedora Core 1

[Granville Cousins]

Hello Garry,

Tuesday, March 23, 2004, 11:36:06 AM, you wrote:

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

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

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

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

Garry> 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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Thanks for your help. What I needed to do was to create a SWAP
partition before installing Fedora Core.
                                        



-- 
Love and Light,
 Granville                            mailto:granville at yogawithgranville.com