reinstallation FC4 problem

[Chris Ruprecht]

I can not say for sure, but I assume that the Windows partition is still
present on your drive and it has about no space for anything else.

run the installer again and select 'manual partitioning' andhave a look
what you have on there. Delete them all and create a ~128 MB /boot and a
2 x your physical but at least 1 GB swap partition and use the rest for
the / (root) partition, since you only have 12 GB available.

Best regards,
Chris


On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 09:05 +0800, sadashiv.chopdekar at ubs.com wrote:
> hi Chris,
> Thanks. But when I tried to re-install FC4, any idea why it 
> is giving space problem? I am giving him entire hard-disk 
> for the installation.
> 
> Thanks n regards
> Sadashiv.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Ruprecht [mailto:chris at ruprecht.org]
> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 8:42 AM
> To: Chopdekar, Sadashiv
> Subject: Re: reinstallation FC4 problem
> 
> 
> Start from a DOS disk (or Win98 CD in DOS mode).
> run 
> fdisk /mbr
> This will do something and exit (no fdisk menu will come up!).
> 
> reboot and you're fine - then from your description, looks like you have
> to re-install something (FC4 or Windows) as you seem to have no OS at
> all.
> 
> Best regards,
> Chris
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 08:26 +0800, sadashiv.chopdekar at ubs.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I had FC4 installed and running smoothly. Yesterday I ran up2date to update my system. It downloaded number of packages and while upgrading gnome, it failed and error out. I was not given any option and the system went down. When I started my machine, it started all the services but was not able to start GNOME panel. Taking this as an opportunity to install Windows, I install windows by formatting entire disk. Installation went well but when I booted, my system it displayed me "GRUB". nothing happens after that.
> > Then I re-install FC4 giving him entire hard disk. It formats and while transferring image to hard disk it fails saying "hard disk ran out of space".
> > If I re-boot, it stays at "GRUB"
> > I have Dell inspiron 3800 with 12GB hard disk. I had windows 98 but moved to FC4 recently.
> > 
> > Help.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks n regards
> > Sadashiv.
> > 
> > 
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