| Author |
Need advice please help me out
|
|
| ninja14 2002-04-06, 2:36 pm |
| Ok I bought Red Hat Linux 7 Bible and it came with 3 Cd's to install Linux I am trying to install on a system running windows 2000 Pro and Server on their own partitions of course. There is 14GB of available disk spaced unpartitioned and ready for Linux. I booted from the CD rom and began installation I get all the way to choosing a partition and I use disk druid and creat a 7 GB partition for Linux native and mount to / a swap partition of 64 MB like it said in the book but when I click next the computer reboots and some text quickly flashes saying something about mount failed or something like that any Ideas do I have to have a clean hard disk to install on? | |
| ccieToBe 2002-04-06, 4:02 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by ninja14
Ok I bought Red Hat Linux 7 Bible and it came with 3 Cd's to install Linux I am trying to install on a system running windows 2000 Pro and Server on their own partitions of course. There is 14GB of available disk spaced unpartitioned and ready for Linux. I booted from the CD rom and began installation I get all the way to choosing a partition and I use disk druid and creat a 7 GB partition for Linux native and mount to / a swap partition of 64 MB like it said in the book but when I click next the computer reboots and some text quickly flashes saying something about mount failed or something like that any Ideas do I have to have a clean hard disk to install on?
/ should be an ext3 partition. For the most part swap partitions don't have mount points. Here's a simple setup that should work:
/ - 1GB ext3 partition
swap - 3x the amount of memory you have
/usr - the rest of the available space | |
| The VMS Kid 2002-04-06, 6:56 pm |
| Use 'dmesg' to look at the bootup messages and see if anything failed. Swap partitions should not be mounted. | |
| ninja14 2002-04-07, 11:38 am |
| Thanks I'll try that Right now and get back with any questions | |
| ninja14 2002-04-08, 10:12 am |
| what is the ext3 partition? | |
| ccieToBe 2002-04-08, 7:41 pm |
| Ext3 is a type of partition format, kind of like FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, etc. For non-swap partitions older versions of RH use ext2 by default and in newer version ext3 is used. |
|
|
|