On Tuesday, July 16, 2002 10:55 PM "Q u a s i" quasar@vsnl.net asked,
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What is the exact problem with the partition table?
During the installation of RHL 7.1, I get the message, "An error occurred while transferring the install image to your HDD. You are probably out of disk space". The installation aborts here & put me back to the screen form where the installation just starts.
When I got this message @ that time my disk partitions were /boot - 54 MB, swap - 133 MB & / - 3794 MB So when I moved back to change the disk size, I received another message, " The partition table on device hda is corrupted. To create new partitions it must be initialized causing the loss of ALL DATA on this drive." Along with following options [ Initialize ] [ Skip Drive ]
Is the MBR all right?
Yes, I have cleared it with fdisk/mbr & I have no problem booting Windows.
Are your windows partitions all right?
Ya, As nothing is happened to them. If I delete the Linux partitions which I had created during the Linux installation, I can take that free space in Windows with no problem. By doing so I checked all the drives with 'Norton Disk Doctor' but even it didn't show me any problem in partition table. So, I consider windows partitions are all right.
If it is a problem with the
linux partition only then use *latest* fdisk to delete the linux partition(s) and create them again. That's it.
Where can I get * latest* fdisk, I use RHL7.1 & with the fdisk, I tried deleting all the linux partitions & recreating them, but didn't helped. Again my installation aborted by non transferring the install image on hard disk.
Unless your MBR or the *whole* partition table is corrupt you dont need to worry. I find using loadin more convenient than Grub/LILO etc. Also if you do use LILO, use the latest version so that you can avoid the /boot partition.
Again where can I get latest version of LILO, is it separately downloadable or is inbuilt in higher versions of RHL.
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