🚀 go-pugleaf

Personally, I would boot off the boot disk you create from the Linux CD, and
run FDISK from the installation... blow all of your Linux partitions away if
this is a fresh install, being you will not lose anything except crammed
partitions... : )

Then recreate the partitions, and this time do not install everything!


David B wrote in message <35d6ee35.0@tpg.com.au>...
>G'day, can anyone help me fix up my stuff up in my first time installation?
>
>My setup is
>Intel BX440 motherboard
>32xcdrom
>64 ram
>4.3gig on hard drive
>windows 98 on c drive
>created 500mb d drive for linux as dev/hda5
>created 128mb e drive for linux swap as dev/hda6
>
>During the Red hat 5 EZstart installation I created the above partitions
>using druid
>and silly me not knowing about any of the acronyms of the software to
>install, took the big step to install everything!. As it was installing I
>got errors mainly of course that hda5 (500mb)had no more space!, I was able
>to continue with pressing ok to these errors. Then I got to the boot loader
>installation i think it was called lilo part of the installation and got
>another error, I assume this error again was that it could not copy the
>files due to no space left. I couldnot bypass or get out of this error so
>had to turnoff the computer.
>
>Some Howto notes indicates that I should use linload.exe zimage
>root=/dev/hda5 ro to start, however I didnot have linload nor zimage on the
>cd so instead used
>loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 ro
>it did its loading only to stop with the following errors:-
>
>"WARNING Your etc/fstab does not contain the fsck passno field"
>I assume this was a file that was not copy as I ran out of space, I am
>correct?
>
>Futher errors was:-
>
>"Whilst parallelizing fsck version 1.10 the superblock could not be read
and
>does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it
>really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else)
>then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an
>alternative superblock."
>
>What does this mean, was the file system corrupted when I had to turn off
>the computer? How can I uncorrupt it and redo the installation.
>
>Did I do any damage using loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 ro instead of
>linload zimage
>Where can I get a copy of linload and zimage, if thats what I need?
>
>As you can see I am only beginner when it comes to linux, so what software
>should I select for software modules to install and also automatic startup.
>Also what size should my linux partition be?
>
>I want to keep win98 in drive c and linux on another drive say d and the
>linux swap on e
>yet currently the corrupt partitions do not show up under win98.
>
>Your help would be greatly appreciated, thanking you.
>David B
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