Use redhat to get the partion scheam you want then do the install using those partions , just sprecify how to mount them ect.. At 10:59 AM 1/22/2001 +0000, Bernard Peek wrote:
I recently tried to install SuSE 7 on a new machine (AMD Athlon 900 on an Abit KT7). Although the install appeared to work I got an error message at the end, RPM reported an error.
I tracked it down to an error in fdisk, a segmentation fault. Fdisk either failed to create the partitions or created corrupt partitions. It seems that the install script through YAST2 didn't detect that there was no filesystem on the destination drive, and spent 8 hours copying the contents of the DVD to /dev/nul.
When I re-ran the install I noticed that formatting the 13Gb disk appeared to take a few seconds. I found out about the seg fault when I ran fdisk from the rescue system. It wouldn't even display the partition information. That means that I couldn't even install SuSE after formatting the disk using another release of Linux. I tested it with Redhat 6.2 which formatted the disks correctly and installed cleanly.
Any suggestions, other than waiting for a SuSE 7.1 DVD that is.
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