HD install , Partition problem

Forum: HD Install
Topic: HD install , Partition problem
started by: Ramone

Posted by Ramone on Sep. 06 2006,18:37

Im havign trouble getting the CD to install to my hard drive.
I tried it on a non partitioned HD using all the hard drive space. Then i tried fdisk'ing the drive, into 1 primary and 1 extended. I still was unabel to install to the hard drive.
I then even tried partitioning to 1 primary, 1 extended and 2 logical within the extended. it tells me i need a "Linux" partition.

Im sorry im a newbie to linux, but would love to have this runing off the hard drive. could someone please give me advice or perhaps step by step instructions.

I thought i might need Cfdisk but i cant find it. I alli have is Fdisk.

Any advice you coudl give would be greatly appreciated.

so you know the system is a umax laptop, amd 333mhz 48mb ram 3.2 gig HD

Posted by Gregzilla on Sep. 06 2006,19:43

Did you set the partition file system type?

If not try mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1 or where ever your primary partition is.

to set for swap you would us mkswap and swapon.

cfdisk should be available. just noticed you spelled it in your post as Cfdisk. In case you haven't tried it, run it from the command line as cfdisk.

Posted by Ramone on Sep. 06 2006,20:26

should i have the hard drive partitioned or can i make it work using the full drive no partitions?

Posted by u2musicmike on Sep. 07 2006,16:01

Ramone,

You should probably do two partitions. I think 50Meg for swap and the rest for hard drive install. A good document to look at is:

< FrugalHowto.pdf >

Eventhough you are not doing a frugal install some steps are the same. You can do a ls -a /usr/sbin and find the script for the hard drive install. I always go with the grub install.

Posted by Ramone on Sep. 08 2006,00:22

thanks ill get crackin on it and see what happend