help for a newbie

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Víctor Manuel Romero wrote:

> Hi,
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> I,m istalling fedore c 2 on dell machina pentium 4 , Intel Borrad and 
> the process fail . I don´t know why and the system simple freezes. It 
> don´t show any message.
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> I think that the proble coulde be something related to the MBR because 
> it stop when attempts format /boot file.
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> Cordial saludo
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If you prefer to write in Spanish, you could also reachme personally or 
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So no messages were shown, eh? And it just hangs there? I could give you 
advice on how to actually partition and format the disk yourself using 
the rescue CD and then using those partitions during the install process 
to install FC3 and avoid formatting the partitions (there's an option 
not to format the partitions).

You may want to print this:

1. Boot off the rescue cd or in CD 1 type at the boot prompt :linux rescue
2. Skip the network card part.
3. Follow the onscreen messages, it will not find any previous 
installation, so you may skip that part
4. Now you should be at a prompt. I hope you know how did the disk got 
partitioned... Your partitions should be there, just not the filesystems 
(i.e unformatted). So execute fdisk. For example fdisk /dev/hda, where 
hda is the master disk on the primary IDE channel on the computer, 
change accordingly.
5. To determine whether the partitions are indeed there, just type 'p' 
to show the partitions' table. If you see your partitions there and 
everything seems to be in order, just quit the program. If not, 
re-create the partitions. The partitions should be there since that part 
did not fail, only formatting. If the partitions are there and 
everything seems to be in order, just type 'q' to quit without 
re-writing the partition table, if you did changes, exit with 'w' to 
commit the changes.
6. Whether the partitions were there or you re-created them, you should 
be able to format them now. For instance suppose you partitioned your 
disk like this:
- hda1 - 100 Mb (for boot)
- hda2 - 30 Gb (for /)
-hda3 - 2 Gb (for swap)
You'd just have to format them like this:
mke2fs /dev/hda1 (to format boot with the ext2 filesystem, you can 
format it in ext3 too with mkfs.ext3 or mke2fs -J)
mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda2
and mkswap /dev/hda3 to format the swap partition. At this point you can 
reboot (type 'exit' at the prompt) and resume installation asking Disk 
Druid NOT to format the partitions, though it may try to format swap 
anyway. Install process at this point should go as expected.
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