redhat 7.1 installing

[dumass]

For some reason when i try to install redhat it says that my aprtition isnt good to my logical disk sectors or sum crap like that.

Prolly cuzz of my RAID array

I have windoze XP on my C: partition, and want to install linux redhat 7.1 into the D: drive partition.

Is tis possible (all partitions = fat 32)
THanks

[cloasters]

I don't know if this is true with the very latest versions of Linux(of which RH 7.1 isn't--I think) but LILO, aka the LInux LOader, has to be installed in the Master Boot Record of your C:\ Drive or Partition. Or /dev/hda1 , in Linux "talk."

You can install Linux so that it boots from a floppy, bypassing the MBR requirement. Win NT/2K/XP guard the MBR jealously, and I don't know how to tell these OS's to drop the gloves vis a vis the MBR, sorry. Having to deal with a RAID array is also taking the solution to this problem beyond my competence. Let's hope someone who knows will chime in on this thread!

[Áedán]

You can install Linux so that it boots from a floppy, bypassing the MBR requirement. Win NT/2K/XP guard the MBR jealously, and I don't know how to tell these OS's to drop the gloves vis a vis the MBR, sorry

I can't help with the RAID, but I can with the MBR stuff.
LILO offers you two places to put it's boot sector. One is in the MBR, which is probably not what you want. The other is in the boot sector of the partition you installed it on. Basically, you install linux, allow lilo to put it's boot sector on the linux partition (NOT the MBR!). Then you copy the first sector off the linux partition into a file, and add it to XP's boot loader menu. (;


As for the RAID, is it supported by the distribution of Linux that you're using? BTW - Linux likes at least two partitions, one for all the normal files, and one for swap space.


AidanII

[dumass]

DAMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IM A DUMASS

in plain and simple english please!

can i fixor it, or not!

[Áedán]

Originally posted by dumass
in plain and simple english please!

If you check what hardware your version of Linux supports, does it support your RAID array.

If it does, and you're still getting the error about the partition not matching the disk sectors, it suggests that your disk has some wierd partitioning on it.

AidanII

[cloasters]

Take a little credit please, dumass. If you really lived up to your handle, you'd still be figuring out the leap from Win3.1 to Win95!

You can't go wrong by getting "Linux for Complete Idiots" from a library or book store. Just remember that books aren't necessarily up to date to the second. What applies to Win NT and Win2K vis a vis Linux should apply to XP as well.

Modern Linux's have rather good "automagic" install capability. Having to deal with Win XP on your C:\ partition is probably confusing RH's installation program. If you can figure out how to "unlock" or un-protect your MBR in XP, that just might do the trick. For some unsettling reason, most Linux distro's wait 'till near the very end of the installation to ask you where you want to install LILO. If you can make it through the install process that far, directing Red Hat to put LILO on a floppy will probably do the trick.

We are ALL "dumasses" the first time we try to install Linux. If you're only familiar with the MS way of doing things, Linux is a shock. The secret that makes Linux less threatening is to have fun with it. Sometimes you gotta remind yourself to have fun, no lie!

[dumass]

hey,

I used to work at a PC shop assembling PC's

I installed all M$ OS's win95+ in my time

Just never linux