On Friday 01 August 2008 17:12, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > The fdisk -l /dev/sda output is below, but in the meantime I tried > > installing Kubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 on the same drive, and had no > > problems creating sda13 for /, and sda14 for /home, as you can see below, > > and HH is installed ok. > > > > Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Disk identifier: 0x0000b82a > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sda1 * 1 1402 11261533+ 83 Linux (F8 /) > > /dev/sda2 1403 2549 9213277+ 83 Linux (F8 /home) > > /dev/sda3 2550 2804 2048287+ 82 Linux swap / > > Solaris /dev/sda4 2805 13988 89835480 5 Extended > > /dev/sda5 2805 4020 9767488+ 83 Linux (Kubuntu > > GG /) /dev/sda6 4021 5114 8787523+ 83 Linux > > (Kubuntu /home) /dev/sda7 5115 6330 9767488+ 83 > > Linux (Archlinux /) /dev/sda8 6331 7424 8787523+ > > 83 Linux (Arch /home) /dev/sda9 7425 8761 10739421 > > 83 Linux (Kubuntu DD /) /dev/sda10 8762 9855 > > 8787523+ 83 Linux (Kubuntu /home) /dev/sda11 9856 10949 > > 8787523+ 83 Linux (Debian Etch /) /dev/sda12 10950 > > 11678 5855661 83 Linux (Etch /home) /dev/sda13 11679 > > 12894 9767488+ 83 Linux (Kubuntu HH /) /dev/sda14 12895 > > 13988 8787523+ 83 Linux (Kubuntu /home) > > > > And the same for sdb, which is supposed to be just for data, but F9 is > > also there at the mo. > > > > Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Disk identifier: 0x0000d51e > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sdb1 * 1 3824 30716248+ b W95 FAT32 (No OS > > ) /dev/sdb2 3825 7471 29294527+ b W95 FAT32 (No > > OS ) /dev/sdb3 7472 8746 10241437+ 83 Linux > > (Fedora 9 /) /dev/sdb4 8747 30401 173943787+ 5 > > Extended /dev/sdb5 8747 9766 8193118+ 83 Linux > > (Fedora 9 /home) > > > > sdb1, and sdb2 have no Win OS on them, and just so that I can store data > > easily from any of the Linux OS's easily, and retrieve it again to > > whichever Linux OS happens to be booted at the time. > > I can think of better fielsystems to use instead of FAT32 for that. > Ext2 comes to mind first.... This has nothing to do with the problem I am having with installing Fedora 9 on sda1, but I think the reason I'm still using FAT32 filesystems to save and retrieve data from various Linux distros, is that I started my computer experience using Windows (soon changed to Linux), and having a data drive on the Windows machine with FAT32 partitions on it, I found there were no problems writing files from Linux distro's to it. the only very small problem, is that if you have files with filenames that have uppercase characters, saving to FAT32 changes them to lowercase. I don't want this thread of mine to drift off from the subject, but is it as easy to set up ext2 partitions, as read/write, so that no matter which Linux distro I have booted at the time, I can write/read data to them? > > > Can't login to either KDE or Gnome on F9 though. Firstboot ran on the > > reboot, entered user name, and password, then Firstboot decided to crash. > > The login screen on a reboot shows my realname, and hovering the mouse > > over it says logging in using my user name, which it shows. So I enter > > the password, but nothing from Gnome, just back to the login. Trying a > > KDE session, it displays an error box top left, saying something like > > "check installation". Anyway that problem if I can't fix it is for a new > > thread. > > > > Thanks for all the replies. > > > > Nigel. > > -- > Kevin J. Cummings > kjchome@xxxxxxx > cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
