antimatter
19th June 2005, 03:49 PM
So, I recently got my Toshiba Satellite 1800 series laptop back from tech support to fix a broken screen, add ram, and put a new 60GB hard drive in. Like the fedora site says, I install Windows XP first, on a 30GB partition. Then, I put my Fedora FC4 CD's in, they all pass media check, and begin installing.
As my laptop has a trident video driver that doesn't seem compatable with graphical mode, according to the various related threads, I install in text mode.
Being a first time linux user, I had no idea how to partition correctly for linux, so I just use disk druid to set another 30GB partition as the / partition, and continue installation. I put grub in the MBR, select all available packages, and finally begin installation.
About 89% of the way through, it tries to reboot my computer, and just sits there, so I reboot it manually. When it turns back on, instead of continuing the installation, or loading grub, it just loads Windows XP like nothing ever happened.
So, I try again, this time reading an out-of-date installation tutorial for Rad Hat, and set a swap partition of 384MB (yes, an odd amount of ram, but thats what I have), a /boot partition of 75MB, and a / partition for the rest. I put grub on the first sector of the boot partition this time. As it begins formatting my / partition, it stops 12% of the way through, saying "An error has happened while formatting. The error is serious."
Does anyone have any idea on how to get FC4 installed correctly on my computer?
As my laptop has a trident video driver that doesn't seem compatable with graphical mode, according to the various related threads, I install in text mode.
Being a first time linux user, I had no idea how to partition correctly for linux, so I just use disk druid to set another 30GB partition as the / partition, and continue installation. I put grub in the MBR, select all available packages, and finally begin installation.
About 89% of the way through, it tries to reboot my computer, and just sits there, so I reboot it manually. When it turns back on, instead of continuing the installation, or loading grub, it just loads Windows XP like nothing ever happened.
So, I try again, this time reading an out-of-date installation tutorial for Rad Hat, and set a swap partition of 384MB (yes, an odd amount of ram, but thats what I have), a /boot partition of 75MB, and a / partition for the rest. I put grub on the first sector of the boot partition this time. As it begins formatting my / partition, it stops 12% of the way through, saying "An error has happened while formatting. The error is serious."
Does anyone have any idea on how to get FC4 installed correctly on my computer?
