[Wolves] Probs wih install

Ron Wellsted ron at wellsted.org.uk
Sat Jan 22 22:53:00 GMT 2005


On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 22:20 +0000, Wayne Morris wrote:
> I keep getting an error on install of Fedora core 1.
> I go right thru the install process, and then it says 
> Starting native X server
> Server started
> Install terminated abnormally
> Shutting down.
>  
> This box runs Linux ok off a version on another drive, the only things
> that are new are a hard drive and a flat screen monitor (which does
> work with the existing setup and correctly right thru the set up.)
> The hard drive is brand new, and I used partition magic to set it up
> as a ext3 drive (rather than format it under windows as dos, then have
> Linux change it).
>  
> Is this most likely to be a monitor issue or a hard drive issue?
>  
Almost certainly the hard drive.  Try deleting the ext3 partition and
let FC do it's stuff.

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Ron Wellsted
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