Hi
The error is not about partitioning. It seems that you are tryign to do a
graphical install. Give one more try
to installation. At boot prompt type text and go for text based install.
It is easy. You can create partition, format partition and install. If you
have unformatted space, then install should proceed smoothly.
Hope this helps.
Bye
Shridhar
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Amit Bhargava wrote:
> Hi, u gurus out there.
>
> Help me with this.
>
> I am trying to install RHL6.1 on my mach with p200 MMX and 2.1 gb hdd 32 mb
> RAM. Earlier (presenlty I am running now also) Win95 OS and now I want to
> learn Linux. The CD from which tried installing is PCQ Nov 1999. The mach is
> now having two partitions 700 mb with win95 and rest unformatted. I did the
> partition just now with FIPS (it melted down like a butter).
>
> I dont even understand the jargons of Linux even. (like mounting, images
> etc). PLease suggest some good beooks for beginers and advance development.
>
> My problem:
>
> This is when I go into the default mode.
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>
> I am not able to format the new partition create dwith FIPS. (How do I
> format it ?) (I have gone thru the FIPS documentation atleast 10 times.)
> As a newbie I tried installing Linux with formatting the unformatted
> partition, with lots of errror messages.
> What I believe is that it might be bcos I haven't yet formatted D: If
> that is the reason then how do I format it use for Linux.
>
>
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>
> If no and linux will format D: itself during installation (if it is supposed
> to do) then please tell me what does the following error message means,
> (what remains after everything scrolled up)
>
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