Re: Installing on SCSI drive

[lgavel ns sympatico ca (Luke C Gavel)]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Art Ross wrote:

> I'm sure this problem has been seen on this list before but I cannot
> find a HOWTO that addresses my problem.  This afternoon I attempted to
> install RedHat 6.2 on a PC that had a SCSI drive and no IDE's.  I was
> able to create my / partition but had trouble creating a swap
> partition.  It would tell me "No primary found".

Something tells me that you inadvertantly allocated all available
HDD space to '/'.  I don't know why I would assume that, but if
I'm wrong please tell me.

>  Is this trying to tell me that I don't have a primary IDE
> HD?

No, or you wouldn't have even been able to format '/'.

>   Well to avoid the error with creating a swap partition, I decided to
> proceed without one since this system had 512MB of RAM.  When the
> installation process began to format the / partition, the process went
> off to begin formatting and it never came back.

Browse around during this process to see what is really happening
in the background.  You have four so-called 'virtual terminals'
that you can use during the installation process.  They are
accessed by ALT-F1 (default), ALT-F2, ALT-F3, and ALT-F4.

HTH,
LG