| Stan Brown 2005-09-19, 2:49 am |
| (f'ups set to alt.linux.redhat)
Sorry for the long article, but I'm trying to include all
relevant information.
After doing some googling, I _think_ I have the right answer. But
I've been through a couple of failed installs already (one leading
to an unbootable machine), so I'd appreciate confirmation before I
try again. I'd really like to have everything set up right before
I try another install, because I'd like the fourth try to work. :-)
Setup: Windows XP preinstalled on Acer laptop machine, with its
own boot manager; now trying to install Fedora Core 3 from CD with
GRUB set up for dual boot. I have one physical disk.
Symptom: after getting through the whole install questionnaire,
shortly after the install actually starts I get this message:
"Attempt to read sectors 2-3 outside of partition on /dev/hda"
That popped up twice with Ignore/Cancel as the choices; then a
similar message referencing sectors 0-7, also twice. I chose Cancel
all four times. That left me with an unbootable machine, which I
was able to repair with the help of Knoppix.
My analysis: I think I need to manually create a /boot partition,
of maybe 100 MB or so, before the 8GB mark.
Question 1: Is that right, creating a /boot partition? Will
the install use it if it's there? (If the /boot partition has to
be pre-created, I'm kind of surprised the install process didn't
complain, since it complains about a missing swap.)
Question 2: Can anybody see any problems with the partitioning
scheme shown below?
Question 3: If I move the Windows partition to start at about 10 GB
instead of 3 GB, I could move Linux to the first part of the disk.
In fact I've seen advice to do that, but I'm nervous about Windoze
not booting if _it_ is made to start beyond the 8 GB limit. Any
comments one way or the other?
My current partition setup is shown below.
Notice that swap and /home are partitions within the hda3 extended
partition. As far as I can see, I have to do this if I'm going to
have a / and a /boot as primary partitions, plus my Windows partition.
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Partition Information for Disk 1: 95,393.8 Megabytes
Volume PartType Status Size MB
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Unallocated Pri 3,004.3 (part of this will be /boot ??)
C:WINXP FAT32X Pri,Boot 20,481.3 = hda2
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
ExtendedX Pri 61,671.4 = hda3, I think
D:DICT FAT32 Log 5,004.6 = hda5
E:PERMDATA FAT32 Log 5,004.6 = hda6
F:PROJECTS FAT32 Log 5,004.6 = hda7
X:TUMS FAT32 Log 5,122.3 = hda8
G:LWSHARE FAT32 Log 38,460.3 = hda9
*:SWAPSPACE2 Linux Swap Log 1,992.4 = hda10
Linux Ext3 Log 1,082.5 = hda11 (will be /home)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Linux Ext3 Pri 10,236.7 = hda1 (will be /)
Thanks to anyone who's read this far!
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the
variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of
evolution is simply ignorant -- inexcusably ignorant, in a world
where three out of four people have learned to read and write."
--Daniel Dennett, /Darwin's Dangerous Idea/ (1995), page 46
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