Hi All,
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I am
providing u this detail story b'coz I want u to understand
the problem properly & give me out
the correct solution.
The mail is
divided in the 3 parts b'coz of the restirision
on the mail size
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Since last 3 days I am
trying to install RHL 7.1 on my pc but,
every time my installation fails b'coz of failure
of disk partitioning or
due to system hanging, yet I'm not able to install
RH on my pc & I'm
still trying......
I have kept around 4GB of my
disk space, to install linux on my m/c
the total disk space I assign in the following
way.
/boot 54
MB
hda8 $ { what is the min space
we can assign to /boot? }
swap 133
MB
hda9
/ remaining
all space hda10
(
around 3.7 GB )
$ { Do I need to create any other partion
for the installation & for improving
the performance, as I found the system is quite
slow in the 1st installation? }
[ I read in one of the how-to (on the CD) that
we can install
linux with these 3 partitions, so I followed it ]
[ NOTE:
I'm not able to partition the disk with Disk Druid
as it is not setting up
/boot partition saying that your boot partition is
>1024 cylinders & can
not be mounted, so I used fdisk instead ( after
reading the info & help )
& I found it very easy. ]
o.k...
On the very 1st day, the
installation goes fine ( with little difficulties)
but there was still some errors such
as
after shuting down the system it was giving an error -
* general protection fault : fooo
cpu : 0 EIP : 0050 [<00008881>]
[snip]
. . . . .
. . . . .
[snip]
* dos partitions were not able to mount
[ I tryed ' mount ' command along with editing
/etc/fstab file
but it didn't work, leaving the message vfat
partitions can not
be mounted ]
$ { why it was not mounting the partitioning
? }
* I was not getting a proper screen
resolution.
which I wanted to solve. So I finally desided to re-install RHL.
Sorry for inconveniance,
SAMEER :)