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Hrm… this is very odd, there apears to be no DOSUTILS directory on the disk, and although there is an IMAGES directory, it doesnt have anything but a file called ‘dummy.img’ and ‘MD5SUM’. I dont think I could have downloaded the wrong thing, I got the file from a mirror listed on http://www.linuxiso.org . Do you think it is possible that I got the wrong thing?
I downloaded it from linuxiso.org because all of the mirrors on the mandrake site led to nowhere, and I got 9.1 instead of 10 because all the links on linuxiso.org to the 10 download pages were dead. But the 9.1 download pages still worked. I just dont think that somone would have tampered with the files on the iso images, or something like that.
Problem solved, at least somewhat. I downloaded Red Hat linux instead and burn the first disk and it booted fine, so I think ill just go ahead and burn the rest of them. Thanks though.
Quote:quote:Originally posted by DJHyperbyteFedora Core 2, I assume? 😉
Yep, but unfortunatly… ugh… there is a problem. When I get to the part about what to do with the partitions, I told it to use the blank space already on my hard drive. But when I do this is says the following:
You have not defined a root partition(/), which is required for installation of Red Hat Linux to continue.”
And when I press OK, it tells me that I might see the error if I dont have enough space, but I am very sure this is not true seeing as I have a 20gig hard drive and only 30% is used by windows at the moment.
So does anyone know how I would go about defining a root partition? Thanks.
You need at least two partitions.
One formatted as Linux swap (512mb should be sufficient in all cases).
Another one formatted as ext2 or ext3, whatever it recommends. It should be mounted on /.SS: You need to have free space, not free space on a partition, use Partition Magic to resize your existing Windows partition.
Quote:quote:Originally posted by DavidSS: You need to have free space, not free space on a partition, use Partition Magic to resize your existing Windows partition.
I tried using Paritition Magic and as soon as I close it the partitions dont exist anymore and it goes back to how it was before.
There are two buttons Undo, and Apply, and when I pressy apply the new partitions dissapear and are not to be seen.
Does anyone know how to make the partitions actually happen with this stupid program?
Sorry for my last post, I understood you wrongly. Fedora setup gives you the option to autopartition. If you make the free space (by resizing partitions that have space left), Fedora can do the rest.
Quote:quote:Originally posted by DavidWhat version do you have? I have 8.0 and it has always worked fine.
I have 8.0 too, but I am thinking about just backing up everything I actually need, format, and than just install it.
What is “Boot mode” in Partition Magic? I just noticed that in the operations window it has a star by the first operation and down at the bottom it says “* Requires boot mode to execute.”
You just need to leave everything as is. You only need to resize some partition(s), so there is enouh free space for Fedora (5gb should be more than enough). The Fedora setup program does the rest.
Do you mean just resize my one partition and leave unallocated space? I tried to do that but it still has the star next to the operation saying it needs to be run in boot mode to do this, and when I press apply it goes back to normal, so I could do all of these things my problem is just what this “boot mode” thing is, they dont even tell you what it is in the help file.
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