On 6/23/05, M A Young <m.a.young@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > I have been saving all the threads concerning FC4 instalation problems > > from the beginning, but the problem I ran into was not covered in opne > > of them. Also, the solutions presented to various probems from > > fedorafaq and fedoraforum failed to present me with a working install. > > > > After the About to Install screen I get this warning: > > Error about informing the kernel about modifications to /dev/hda3- > > device or resource busy. > > > > So I Ignore it and an immediatly presented with: > > Exception occured. > > I saw this on a kickstart install (x86_64). Curiously enough I repeated > the same install and it worked second time around. I was mirroring disks, > the first disk had a Windows partition on it that I was overwriting, and > the second may have had its geometry modified (ie. number of virtual heads > put up to 255). > > Michael Young > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > I think that I managed to format the entire drive in fdisk, but the problem persists. I thought that I had erased hda2, but it still complains. What is the fool-proof way of formating an old hard disk before install? Dotan
