Amit Bhargava wrote
> Hi, u gurus out there.
Someone called me a guru, if only out of ignorance. Chalega!
> Help me with this.
To bolo na dear.
> I dont even understand the jargons of Linux even. (like mounting, images
> etc). PLease suggest some good beooks for beginers and advance development.
To tension mat lo. Read the March PCQ of last year. Or Chip of October
last year. Or PCQ of Nov last year. These are good starting materials
for some insight into starting with Linux for the first time. Install
from the CD PCQ RHL 6.1 Nov'99.
> This is when I go into the default mode.
Always go into the text mode.
> 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.)
Your 2.1 GB HDD has 700 M allocated to Windows, OK. Now the rest is to
be freed. You used FIPS [I have never used it] and it says that the rest
of the space is free. Are you sure it is not allocated to any drive
letter. It should not be.
Have you used FDISK ever? Do this much.
1. Take a new floppy.
2. Format it [C:> format a:]
3. Make bootable [C:. sys a:]
4. Copy
format.com
fdisk.exe
unformat.com
onto the floppy.
5. Restart your machine. Note the screen-text very carefully. It should
show
a sentence something like 'Press DEL for setup'
or 'Press F2 for setup' or some other key. Press that key.
6. Search the options. The setup has something like 'startup sequence'
or 'bootup sequence'. Change it to the following.
Floppy -> CD ROM -> HDD
7. Save and exit, this should restart your machine. This should
facilitate your options.
8. Put the boot-floppy [which we just created] into the drive and boot
from
the floppy. Run
fdisk
9. Except for C:\ Primary and active partition, delete all the other
logical,
extended etc etc partitions, if you have any. The order of deletion
will be
something like
Logical extended partition goes first.
Then you Primary partition.
[Your C:\ is a primary, active partition. Do not delete this]
10. After you are shown that there is no other partition of any kind
whatsoever in your HDD. Put in the Linux CD Rom in the drive. Take out
the floppy. Reboot.
11. Type 'text' at the prompt. Proceed from there, but DO MAKE SURE THAT
YOU HAVE READ THE MAGS I HAVE MENTIONED. There is sufficient info for
people like you there. And in clearly understandable terms. If 'I'
could understand
this, so can you.
> As a newbie I tried installing Linux with formatting the unformatted
> partition, with lots of errror messages.
Naturally. Linux wil take the unused space automatically. Do NOT format
it already.
> 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.
You don't. Linux does it itself. Always do a 'custom installation'. I
will suggest that you do a 'workstation class' installation first. And
then a 'custom system' installation. You will learn a lot.
Get back,
Rohit
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