Red Hat Fedora Installation

[Merovingian]

Okay, I'm trying to install Red Hat and it won't let me. I already have a partition ready on the raptor and it just says that I have to define a root partition. I try to use the easy install instead and it tells me the same thing but there is no option to choose a root partition in the easy install but it suggests that I might not have enough room if I'm having a problem. Okay, so I use my media drive as where it should install incase the 20GB on my raptor wasn't enough. I have 200GB available on the media drive and I get the same error, so I know space is not the problem. Any ideas?

 

[MNKyDeth1]

Anyways, you need to have free unpartitioned disk space when you go to install the OS. If you already have a partition created for Linux and it's only one partition, that is not enough because Linux needs atleast 2 partitions/ One / and one swap. Red Hat/Fedora Core distro's like 3 available one for / and swap and /boot.

So make sure the remaining space you are giving to Linux isn't already partitioned, let Linux partition the rest of that space. Hpoe that helps, as that sounded like what was going on, that you already had a partition made for Linux, but it wasn't enough.

 

[qbek]

I believe 7GB is all you need for a full FC3 installation.

 

[Cobalt]

Originally posted by: qbek
I believe 7GB is all you need for a full FC3 installation.

Not even, I put mine on a 4gb partition and I still have space left.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Are these drives SATA?

Edit > Duh, Raptor is. Is the other drive SATA also?

 

[Merovingian]

No, the other is not an SATA drive. How do I unpartition my disk? This process wont wipe my windows right, I have a back up for every day but, you know...Anyway, what size should the partition be cause I want about 50MB for windows/win apps. 23MB okay? How should I divide it? You guys are great! Thanks again!

 

[qbek]

23GB is plenty enough. As I have said before the full (bloated) install is less than 7GB. You can reduce that significantly by installing only select packages.

Anaconda (the installer) will recommend you a partitioning scheme of the unpartitioned space (depending on your system memory) and will perform the partitioning.

I do not believe that the FC installation disk includes tools that would allow you to move/resize windows partitions. You can do that using commercial windows programs (Partition Magic) or LiveCD Linux like Knoppix (GUI QTParted).

 

[jackschmittusa]

You can go into "computer management" and delete the partition without disturbing your Win install. FC will then see the unpartitioned space and set itself up.

 

[Merovingian]

Jack, you the man! Now if only I could get it to dual boot.

 

[drag]

Generally with dual boot you just let the installer handle the dual booting. The Windows NTLDR is a huge pain to get working with other OS's.

 

[HKSturboKID]

I just did a core 3 install on a spanking new PC that I got. Its a p2 266 with 2gig HD. install X on it without kde or gnome and its sweet.

 

[Merovingian]

Originally posted by: drag
Generally with dual boot you just let the installer handle the dual booting. The Windows NTLDR is a huge pain to get working with other OS's.

I have it installed already so what exactly do you mean by letting the installer handle it?

 

[Merovingian]

I have installed RedHat on my Raptor partition only to find that there seems noway to boot it...

Everybody says that dual boot fedora cannot be done on one hard drive. This would be fine except that I already set aside 20GB of space on my raptor and my raptor is much faster than my 7200RPM media drive. So I had two choices, either keep going to try to figure how this is done or figure out how to reallocate my 20GB d drive back to the windows c partition. I'm still cracking away at it and I came across this...

"I have to say that PJ Hollenback gave me the final bit of info that allowed me to dual boot winxp fully updated on hda1 with fedora core 3 fully updated with no /boot, everything on / and /usr, on hda5. I had been following the discourse on dual booting @ Ed's software guide on Linux and all I got was an empty file when I followed the "dd" command. The whole thing can be found at http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html A very big thanks to the gentlemen who contributed. I modified PJ's dd command the the following to suit my installation and I now have ntldr booting both winxp and fedora 3 perfectly. "dd =if/dev/hda5 of=media/floppy/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1" Copy the file to c:\ then add c:\bootsect.lnx="linux" to boot.ini and away you go. Thank you PJH "

Edit: Found the link he was talking about here...

http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html

I think this is a little beyond me but it looks possible. I have just acquired partition magic for the occasion. Any ideas?

 

[qbek]

It is usually recommended to use GRUB (or Lilo) as the boot loader for a dualboot system. If you want to use windows it will call the windows loader. I would follow this route unless there is a specific reason you cannot.
Fedora Dual-Boot Setup