On 6/23/05, Ben Steeves <ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 6/23/05, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > > -- > Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx > The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx > against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 > http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves > 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/ Dotan http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/416/queen.php Queen Song Lyrics
