Partition boot disk when installing Fedora Core 4

[Ruiyuan Jiang]

Hi, Steve

I fixed the problem. The disk had Windows 2000 installed. When I
installed Fedora Core 4, I never powered off the system. After I powered
the system off, it worked fine although I chose "wipe out all partitions
on the system" option. Thanks.


Ryan  

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steve Phillips
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 2:57 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Partition boot disk when installing Fedora Core 4

Ruiyuan Jiang wrote:
> Hi, all
> 
> I am quite new to Redhat world. I recently downloaded Fedora Core 4 
> and tried to install it on a Compaq PC. I wiped out the Windows that 
> installed on the PC so Fedora Core 4 is the only OS for the system. In

> the installation process, I chose either "automatic or manual 
> partition disk with disk druid". I tried to create /var, /usr, /opt, 
> /tmp, /home on their own partitions instead of a big "root" partition 
> on a single disk. The practice is typical or standard on HP-UX or 
> Solaris. The installation went on without warning or problem. After 
> the installation is done, the box got rebooted. The box stopped 
> booting and it complained about /var, /usr, /opt, /home when it read 
> /etc/fstab file in the

How did it complain ? (hint - error messages go a long way toward
explaining things if you decide to post them)

> booting process. As I stated above, I tried to install Fedora Core 4 
> with both automatic or manual partition disk but they both failed to 
> boot. My co-worker installed Redhat before and he could partition the 
> disk but he can't explain why we can't partition disk on Fedora Core
4.
> So my question is if Fedora Core 4 supports disk partition instead of 
> a big "root" partition on a single disk? Thanks in advance.

The answer to your question is: Yes.

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Steve.

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