Re: [aclug-L] So close, but . . .SOLVED!

[Jim Rosencutter <rosencut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I got through the install!  Here's what was happening:

I was partitioning with Disk Druid.  I initially thought available space
it was telling me I had was generous.  After retrying the install
several times, I figured out I could Alt-F3 to see the output of the
process.  When it failed again, there was some message there about
"extending beyond the end of the device" or something like that.  I went
back and f-disked the Linux partitions, set up some more conservative
sizes, and successfully completed the install.  LILO works beautifully
for dual-booting to win95, too.  Now if I only had a non-winmodem :(

Jim


Jim Rosencutter wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to get Redhat 5.2 installed on an empty partition (~1GB) of
> my win95 machine.  I boot from the CD, set up the partitions, and pick
> the packages I want.  Next the install appears to be formatting the
> partitions, then it stops with an error "mount failed: invalid
> argument."  I can't do anything else from this point except turn off the
> machine and start over.
> 
> I couldn't find much advice on Redhat's site.  Anybody have suggestions?
> 
> TIA, Jim
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