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Really im a windows guy I have never used Linux so Im not sure what to do .
i get to the screen that shows the HDD and i guess i need to split it up / ,/boot but how do i do this.
the hard drive is 4g do i make it fat32 or what .
Any help would be great.
Nick
i get to the screen that shows the HDD and i guess i need to split it up / ,/boot but how do i do this.
the hard drive is 4g do i make it fat32 or what .
Any help would be great.
Nick
No...FAT32 = Windoze
ext2 is standard for Linux fs.
Hard to tell from your post: are you installing rpms to an already-running Linux system, or are you still installing the OS?
If you're installing Linux, I started a FAQ here on partitioning for it, but it's still missing a lot of details...
Several other threads around here address partitioning though.
ext2 is standard for Linux fs.
Hard to tell from your post: are you installing rpms to an already-running Linux system, or are you still installing the OS?
If you're installing Linux, I started a FAQ here on partitioning for it, but it's still missing a lot of details...
Several other threads around here address partitioning though.
Hi,
Is that the complete message ? Depends at what stage you get the error. It <could> even be a CD error with your CD-reader trying to read 512 byte blocks...
More likely from what you say you just didn't create the proper partitions or tried to install in a fat partition and got errors. For Linux you can get away with just two partitions - a swap partition (similar conceptually to windows swap file) and a root ('/') partition. You can install into separate fat/fat32 partitions if you really want but this is not recommended for security and performance reasons. The 'standard' partition id / filesystem for linux is ext2.
If you have partition magic (for M$/WIndows) I'd recommend organising your partitions with that - purely because its graphical and fairly easy to follow. I'm assuming you have windows installed and want to multi-boot. If your drive is 4gb and is just seen as one C: drive then it must be fat32 at present. If its fat16 you'd have two primary partitions - i.e. a 2gb C: (/dev/hda1) & 2gb D: (/dev/hda2) . If you have the latter you could just use the D: for linux (having of course first transferred any files to C
. Otherwise you would have to resize (downwards) your main partition (/dev/hda1) to free up the unused space. Either way, next you create a linux ext2 partition and a small linux swap partition (Maybe twice the size of the amount of ram in your PC). When you are creating the linux/swap partitions its fine to make them logical partitions rather than primary partitions. The primary partitions on the first hard drive are desiginated /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3, dev/hda4 in the order they are created. Logical partitions begin at /dev/hda5 and so on even if there are not four primaries. Also, if you have logical partitions, one of the primary partitions with be the 'parent' extended partition.
Anyway, when you get back to that linux installer partitioning screen what you have to do is indicate which partition is your swap partition and indicate the mount points for your ext2 partitions. So if you only have one set the mount point as '/' (without the quotes. Then allow the installer to format the ext2 partition.
Hopefully it should now proceed....
Regards
Is that the complete message ? Depends at what stage you get the error. It <could> even be a CD error with your CD-reader trying to read 512 byte blocks...
More likely from what you say you just didn't create the proper partitions or tried to install in a fat partition and got errors. For Linux you can get away with just two partitions - a swap partition (similar conceptually to windows swap file) and a root ('/') partition. You can install into separate fat/fat32 partitions if you really want but this is not recommended for security and performance reasons. The 'standard' partition id / filesystem for linux is ext2.
If you have partition magic (for M$/WIndows) I'd recommend organising your partitions with that - purely because its graphical and fairly easy to follow. I'm assuming you have windows installed and want to multi-boot. If your drive is 4gb and is just seen as one C: drive then it must be fat32 at present. If its fat16 you'd have two primary partitions - i.e. a 2gb C: (/dev/hda1) & 2gb D: (/dev/hda2) . If you have the latter you could just use the D: for linux (having of course first transferred any files to C
. Otherwise you would have to resize (downwards) your main partition (/dev/hda1) to free up the unused space. Either way, next you create a linux ext2 partition and a small linux swap partition (Maybe twice the size of the amount of ram in your PC). When you are creating the linux/swap partitions its fine to make them logical partitions rather than primary partitions. The primary partitions on the first hard drive are desiginated /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3, dev/hda4 in the order they are created. Logical partitions begin at /dev/hda5 and so on even if there are not four primaries. Also, if you have logical partitions, one of the primary partitions with be the 'parent' extended partition.Anyway, when you get back to that linux installer partitioning screen what you have to do is indicate which partition is your swap partition and indicate the mount points for your ext2 partitions. So if you only have one set the mount point as '/' (without the quotes. Then allow the installer to format the ext2 partition.
Hopefully it should now proceed....
Regards
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