i faced one such problem but am not sure if this would work out for u.. just give about 2-5 MB free space after providing the partition information....(leave some free space)and start .... i gave about 5 MB free space and it happily started installing On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Aaron Konstam wrote:
!Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 08:38:05 -0600 !From: Aaron Konstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> !Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] !To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] !Subject: Re: Installation problems Red Hat 7.1 ! !On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 04:44:57PM -0800, Bjarki Bjorgulfsson wrote: !> Hello everyone, !> !> I'm having huge problems with my Red Hat 7.1 Linux installation. The !> computer always freezes during the installation process (when the packages !> are being installed/copyed) !> I have partitioned my drive with a Windows partition at the beginning and !> Linux at the end of the drive(/ = 6Gig, 512swap and about 2Gig /home). I !> have tried the text installation method but it also crashes. !> !> I have pretty shitty hardware in this machine, it is one of those integrated !> systems with the NIC, soundcard and AGP bundled into the motherboard. The !> video card is Alladin RIVA TNT2 with 32 MB memory. Intel Pentium 800Mhz !> processor and 20 GB drive. It has one 256MB RAM chip and 52x CD ROM. I do !> know that I can't run Win 2000 nor Win XP on this machine due to shitty !> hardware. Only Win 98 works on it. !> !> I'm starting to think that the RedHat CD is bad or something. I bought the !> Red hat 7.1 Bible and got the CD with it. The weird thing is that I do have !> an old Redhat 5.2 system CD that installs fine from the CD rom. What does !> that tell you? !> !> Is it possible to install from the FAT32 Windows partiton, if I copy the !> RPMS and Base to it? I have tried it but the Linux installation program !> always says that the directory I point to doesn't have the CD images or !> something like that. Isn't it enough to copy the base folder and RPMS folder !> into a directory on the Windows Partition and point to that directory during !> the install? I have tried copying only the RPMS and Base directories and !> also the whole CD but neither does work. !> !> Do you guys have any suggestions? !> !> my best, !> Bjarki Bjorgulfsson !I am not sre from your description what you did. What you should do !is start with the Linux CD and partition the disk, The Linux !partitions should be ext2 and the swap partition should be swap !partitioned. The Windows partition should be identified as Fat32. !After Linux is installed then install the windows. The windows could !be installed first but the partitioning needs to be done first with !the Linux CD> !-- !------------------------------------------- !Aaron Konstam !Computer Science !Trinity University !715 Stadium Dr. !San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 ! !telephone: (210)-999-7484 !email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ! ! ! !_______________________________________________ !Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] !https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list ! ---------------------------------------------------------- When I read about the evils of smoking , I gave up reading ---------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
