[TriLUG] Fedora installation issue

Roy Vestal rvestal at trilug.org
Tue Jan 13 22:06:56 EST 2004


Found the problem: bad CD.  I downloaded the iso again and it's working
fine. (thanks for the tip Nivex!)

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 19:38, Roy Vestal wrote:
> Thanks. Didn't work. :( I'll try to get the ntfs partition lower than
> 1024c and try it again.
> 
> On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 06:20, Dean Price wrote:
> > The problem that you are having doesn't have anything to do with your NTFS
> > part being too big... Linux will complain and keep going...
> > 
> > Try making your /boot part 150-200MB ... I have noticed that FC1 likes the
> > boot part to be above 150...
> > 
> > Dean Price
> > deano at price4.org
> > dprice153 at charter.net
> > dean.price at ctg.com
> > 
> > 
> > Roy Vestal said:
> > > I have another laptop that I *had* XP and FC1 installed dual-boot. I
> > > needed more HDD space for my XP partition, so I ghosted the partition,
> > > made XP bigger and I have been trying for 2 days to get FC1 to reinstall.
> > > Everytime, I get an error stating the setup I have "may" not work with my
> > > hardware configuration, esp the /boot partitition. However, It allows me
> > > to continue. When I get to the "Copying Install Image", it tells me there
> > > isn't enough HDD space. ARGH!!!
> > >
> > > Here's the disk setup:
> > > NTFS (XP) 10GB
> > > /boot 100MB
> > > swap 1498GB (784MB RAM)
> > > Extended partition
> > >  / 25GB
> > >
> > > Anyone see something wrong? Any suggestions?
> > >
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