SOLVED: Another FC4 installation problem
Dotan Cohen
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Thu Jun 23 19:37:18 UTC 2005
On 6/23/05, Ben Steeves <ben.steeves at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/23/05, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > booted into windows one last time and used Partion Magic 8 to erase
> > the /boot and / partions. Now the entire 20 gigs is one big partion. I
> > told DiskDruid to erase everything on the disk, and create a 100 meg
> > /boot, 12000 meg /, and 8000 meg /home.
> > - I tried with and without the option linux ide-nodma as per
> > suggestion on fedorafaq. No difference.
>
> Try re-doing the partitioning using fdisk instead. In Anaconda, when
> you get the option to manually or automatically partition, switch to
> virtual console 2 (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and type "fdisk /dev/hda" . Set up
> your partitions the way you want, quit out of fdisk, and reboot if it
> says anything about being unable to write the partition information or
> that the kernel will use the old partition table until reboot. If you
> don't need to reboot (or after you reboot), use Disk Druid to set your
> partition labels and mount points normally, but keep the partition
> setup as you've defined in fdisk.
>
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I simply could not get that disk workable in fdisk. So I booted up
knoppix, and used qtparted to erase al the old partitions and create a
new one. I highly recommend qtparted.
In another issue, I have seen in other posts that in order to check
the sha1 sum of FC4, a command-line utility must be downloaded. I used
HashCalc from slavasoft, the same program that I used to chech the md5
of FC3, so it's been out for at least half a year now. I recommend it:
http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/
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