Hi there >Your summary of the hard disks indicates 3 partitions of type NTFS with >a total of ~80gb. I realize that you have 2 drives, but I wonder how >you are doing the install. I'm installing FC2 on the second drive , the MAXTOR 6L040J2 (37.3GB) , which is the secondary master.The 80G one with the NTFS partitions is the primary master. >Are you trying to install to an existing partition? >or are you creating new install partitions? Nope.I'm installing on a new partitions on the MAXTOR 6L040J2 (37.3GB) >Which hard drive is master and which is slave? Maxtor 6Y080L0 (76.3GB) ------is the primary master.It's slave is a DVD-ROM drive MAXTOR 6L040J2 (37.3GB)----is the secondary master.It's slave is a CDROM drive >Where are the NTFS partitions? The NTFS partions is where XP is resident(on the Maxtor 6Y080L0 (76.3GB) disk) >Can you provide an fdisk -l output for each drive (will answer the >second and 3rd questions above) and the answers to my questions above. Dunno is the info I've given is sufficient to provide a lead.If not I'll do the fdisk -l thing later today.The machine is sitting at home and I'lll only be able to access it later today. The strange thing is that FC1 installs without any problem.In fact , that's what I have temporarily running on the machine. jeff mutonho On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 14:33:33 -0500, Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 08:00, Jeffrey Mutonho wrote: > > Hi guys.I'm re-posting my message as the original on never appeared on the list: > > > > Hi guys. > > I've been battling with installing FC2 on my machine.My installation > > keeps failing with a message saying "Install exited abnormally..." and > > then a message for me to reboot the machine.I've googled and stumbled > > upon a post (at > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-May/msg05225.html)with > > the same problem and the response seemed to suggest that it was a > > hardware issue.FC1 installs without a problem.I've used the same CDs > > on another work machine and had no problems at all. > > > > There's a summary of my machine: > > > > >From the information on the summary below I see one potential problem > that none of the other posters mentioned (yes it may be a dumb question > but I want to rule out all the possibilities). > > Your summary of the hard disks indicates 3 partitions of type NTFS with > a total of ~80gb. I realize that you have 2 drives, but I wonder how > you are doing the install. > > Are you trying to install to an existing partition? or are you creating > new install partitions? > Which hard drive is master and which is slave? > Where are the NTFS partitions? > > Can you provide an fdisk -l output for each drive (will answer the > second and 3rd questions above) and the answers to my questions above. > > <snip> > > Physical Storage Devices > > Removable Drive : Floppy disk drive > > Hard Disk : MAXTOR 6L040J2 (37.3GB) > > Hard Disk : Maxtor 6Y080L0 (76.3GB) > > CD-ROM/DVD : DVDRW IDE1108 (CD 40X Rd, 40X Wr) (DVD 5X Rd, 5X Wr) > > CD-ROM/DVD : SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-240B (CD 40X Rd, 40X Wr) > > > > Logical Storage Devices > > 1.44MB 3.5" (A:) : N/A > > Hard Disk (C:) : 39.1GB (20.4GB, 52% Free) (NTFS) > > Hard Disk (D:) : 19.7GB (13.1GB, 66% Free) (NTFS) > > Hard Disk (E:) : 17.6GB (11.9GB, 68% Free) (NTFS) > > Clearworkdisk (F:) : 556MB (0MB, 0% Free) (CDFS) > > Tomcat (G:) : 88MB (0MB, 0% Free) (CDFS) > <snip> > >
