Re: HD installation problems...

["Tony Farrell" <afarrell xtra co nz>]

Hi Brad

I note that your /usr partition is up to hda6 but you have only got 3
partitions set. Obviously you have had earlier attempts at installation and
you now have empty partitions on the disc. You could even be running out of
drive space. I suggest you try another installation attempt and at the
partitioning stage execute fdisk and progressively delete all partitions one
at a time starting at 6 and working your way down sequentially to 1 i.e
fdisk d 6, d 5, d 4 etc until there are no partitions left then write the
changes to disc with a w and reboot and start the installation again. This
time when you get to the partition stage I recommend you use a /boot
partition of about 7 MB as hda1 and then create your remaining partitions as
you wish using either fdisk or Disk Druid. RH 6.2 should have absolutely no
trouble with this drive.

Regards

Tony

Brad <newbie capstone net au> wrote in message
<000b01c013b5$27f01e30$0100a8c0 brad>...
> I still haven't resolved my HD installation problems after 4 days of
trying
> to get it going so I'll re-post the original message in the hope that
> someone else has overcome this.
>
> I have a 20Gb IDE Seagate HD that I am having a lot of trouble installing
> RedHat 6.2 on. It is an ATA-66 HD but I am only using it in UDMA33 mode
with
> a 40 wire cable. The drive's native configuration is  39693 tracks x 16
> heads x 63 sectors and I have invoked LBA mode in the BIOS so it is now
2490
> cylinders x 255 heads x 63 sectors  I have formatted it with Win95 with
one
> large partition and there are no bad sectors.
>
> When I start the RedHat installation and get to Disk Druid I set:
>
> /    1004Mb
> /usr    18324Mb
> /swp    203Mb
>
> I then start the installation and when it goes to format hda6 (/usr) it
> comes up with an error:
>
> Error mounting hda6: Invalid argument
>
> Exception error
> Traceback (innermost last)
> File "/usr/bin/anaconda" , line 342 in ?
> initf.run (todo, test = test)
> File "/usr/bin/anaconda/text.py" ,
> line 1165, in run
> rc=apply (setp[1] (), step [2])
> File "/usr/bin/anaconda/text.py" ,
> line 782, in _call_
> if todo.doInstall ():
> File "/usr/bin/anaconda/text.py" ,
> line 1114, in doInstall
> self.fstab.savePartitions
> File "/usr/bin/anaconda/text.py" ,
> line 149 in savePartitions
> self ddruid.save ()
> SystemError: Error partitioning drive
> /tmp/hda: Invalid argument
>
>
> It seems to be having some difficulty accessing the drive and I am
guessing
> that the drive geometry may be unsuitable for Linux.  I am aware of the
1024
> cylinder maximum for '/' and I would have thought that as '/' is only a
> small number it would be well within the 1024 cylinder limitation. I have
> created 2 x 8Gb and 1 x 2.3Gb partitions instead of the one large one and
it
> appears to work OK. I have also installed the HD into a different PC with
> different motherboard etc and it is still the same.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Brad
>
>
>
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