Dear Friends,
Yesterday I tried to install Red Hat Linux
(RHL) 7.1 on
my m/c. Everything goes fine abt detecting kbd & mouse.
After
that I start with system installer with the workstation mode
for
the installation. The next step was the Disk Partitioning.
Let me tell u 1st abt my disk partitioning. I
have 20GB
hdd with 4 partiton of approx 4GB with FAT32 (total 16GB) for
windows & remaining 4GB is left free for Linux.
Drive
Disk Space SetAS
C
4GB pri dos
D
4GB logical
| In
E
4GB logical |
Extended DOS
F
4GB logical
|
& remaining 4GB is free for
Linux.
I AM UNABLE TO INSTALL LINUX ON THIS FREE
SPACE. I'm STUCK UP
AT THIS PLACE.
Here the Auto partitioning failed (in
workstation mode,
other options r server, laptop & custom mode) giving
the resion
that, " There is not sufficient disk space in order to
automatically
partition your disk space. You will need to manually
partition
your disk for RHL to install." Giving 2 options for disk
partioning
1st manually partition with Disk Druid & 2nd with fdisk
(expert mode)
The Disk Druid shows the following
chart
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Partitions
Mount
Point Device Requested
Actual Type
<not set>
hda1
3898M 3898M win95
FAT32
<not set>
hda5 3859M
3859M win95 FAT32
<not set>
hda6
3859M 3859M win95
FAT32
<not set>
hda7 3961M
3961M win95 FAT32
Add Edit Delete
Reset Make RAID device (BTW wht is
RAID)
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Drive
Summery
Device Geom [c/h/s]
Total(M) Free(M) Used(M) used
(%)
hda
[2481/255/63] 19461M
3883M 15578M 80
%
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If I try to mount the entire free disk space
(3883MB)
as linux native with mount point as / (root) then the
system
gives the message that, " There are currently unallocated
partition(s) in the list of requested partitions. The unallocated
partition(s) are as shown below, along with the reason they
are not
allocated.
/ Not enough free space
"
...& the installation get aborted & I need
to reboot the system.
How can I come out of this? & make
the partition for root
swap & home
2nd thing if I try to assign swap partition
(let it b 1mb
or 128 mb) from the free space of hda device the Disk
Druid
chart show Requested is 128MB & Actual is 2047MB & free space
remains is only 1836MB. The same happend even if i assign swap
of just
1MB. here only requested mem changes & other parameters
remains same.
Why is this happening?
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P.S.
Can anybody show me the actual
installation of the RHL 7.1
with disk partitioning on his/her
pc.