newbie Install questions

[mixwebsFF]

Okay, I am an Extreme newbie,

I downloaded the four CD's, Burned the images using nero and began my installation.

I began my installation and got through CD 1 and CD 2, but that was it, it never prompted me for CD 3 or 4 on top of that it said that my installation was a success. I didn't even see half of the screenshots in the installation guide.

Is there something I am doing wrong?

When I boot to Windows, and check my disk management, I see my original (G)drive which says its a basic partition and next to it two(2) blank basic partitions at 106 MB.

Help. I really want to make the switch but I can't seem to get the hang of this.

Thanks

mixwebsFF

[Omega Blue]

Depending on your choices you may not need all 4 CDs. If you can boot into Fedora you are doing fine.

[mixwebsFF]

Okay, I re-installed FC4...and actually read that I only needed 1 and 2, so that was fine. However, I still can't boot to Fedora, Do I need a boot CD? It's on a different physical drive... do I need to switch the pin set in the back to make it the master drive and the windows a slave drive? or do i have to make the Fedora Drive a Secondary Master? I'm really at a lost with this....

[tejas]

Reinstall GRUB in the MBR!!!!!

Boot into the first CD: At the prompt, type in Linux Rescue

Then, at the later prompt, type in:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/hda (or sda for SATA)

- Tejas Dinkar

[Alerander]

Originally Posted by mixwebsFF

I began my installation and got through CD 1 and CD 2, but that was it, it never prompted me for CD 3 or 4 on top of that it said that my installation was a success.

I had finished my FC4 installation with 3 CDs, it's really depended on your choices, but you will have to reinstalled it now, maybe you forgot to install some neccessary packages.
You may need some RPMs in CDs you haven't used during your installation, such as GLIB in CD 4 if you want to comiple some software.

[tomcat]

If Fedora does not boot at all, even after reinstalling grub, you should do a media check with your cds. Maybe you got a bad download or bad burn.

[mixwebsFF]

Media check was fine for disc 1 and 2 which is all that was required, I reinstalled grub successfully, however, now when I reboot, I get a "GNU GRUB version 0.95" black screen with a "grub>" prompt.

what did I do?

[tejas]

Bad Sign.

Anway, to boot into windows, type:

rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

and for nix
root (hdx,y) x and y are numbers x=0 for hda, 1 for hdb, 2 for hdc y=0 for hda1 , 1 for hda2 ....
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img

If you have a seperate /boot, replace /boot with (hdx,z)

Once in UNIX, look at /etc/grub.conf and see what is wrong.


By any chance, did you leave out the chroot /mnt/sysimage when you reinstalled GRUB?

[mixwebsFF]

what do you mean leave it out

I think what I did was type in the first command line:
chroot /mnt/sysimage (then I pressed enter)
and typed in grub-install /dev/hda

should I have entered the enter line as one?

[mixwebsFF]

not that it matters now, but I can't boot into windows
my window OS is not responding

[mixwebsFF]

all that happens is the grub screen I described in the previous post