Redhat Fedora Core Installation

john.s · 05-25-2006, 02:29 PM

As of right now this very moment, I'm installing Redhat as we speak and I need some guidance.

Here is where I'm at. Basically I'm going through the following steps that's on redhat's site which is here:

As you can SEE, there is no link shown here because it says I'll have to post up at least 3 posts to post up a link. I find that rediculous, but rules are rules.

If you go there, you will read the following:

"At the prompt, type parted /dev/hdX or parted /dev/sdX (for whichever drive you want to repartition), where X is the partition number of that hard drive"

^ I have no idea what the above means. So yea, I'm stuck right there and I don't know what to do. I only have one hard drive. My local c: drive is 33.6gb

But yea right now I'm installing it right now. If only I could transfer the screenshot I took from the other computer to this laptop I would be easier, but oh well. I'm at the prompt right now and this is how it looks like:

Code:

When finished please exit from the shell and your system will reboot

-/bin/sh-3.00#

After typing parted /dev/hd0 I get the following:

Code:

-/bin/sh-3.00# parted /dev/hd0
Error: Could not stat device /dev/hd0 - No such file or directory.
Retry/Cancel?

^ The above is what I get. I guess I'm still stuck. I don't know what to do.

michaelk · 05-25-2006, 03:19 PM

Device IDs for IDE drives:
/dev/hda - 1st controller master
/dev/hdb - 1st controller slave
/dev/hdc - 2nd controller master
/dev/hdd - 2nd controller slave
and so on.

SCSI, Firewire, USB and SATA devices are /dev/sdx where x = a-z. Typically the first device on the first controller recognized will be assigned /dev/sda, the next /dev/sdb and so on.

BTW searching this website and googling might provide faster answers. But then knowing what to search for is half the battle. Welcome to LinuxQuestions.

bathory · 05-25-2006, 03:20 PM

If you have only 1 drive (the c: in DOS/Windows) then you should run:

Code:

parted /dev/hda for IDE drives
parted /dev/sda for SATA/SCSI drives

But I'm curious. Doesn't Redhat have a graphical installation?

john.s · 05-25-2006, 05:24 PM

Here's what I did. I typed in parted /dev/hda then once I typed in resize 2 1024 2048 as you see below right before (parted) I get the following error below:

Code:

Using /dev/hda
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-39205.687 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor      Start        End             Type            Filesystem      Flags
1         0.031      39197.658        primary           ntfs            boot

(parted) resize 2 1024 2048
Error: Partition doesn't exist.

I know that pretty soon I will do something that will screw up my computer. I have no idea what I'm doing. Someone lend me a hand, please.

michaelk · 05-25-2006, 06:21 PM

The 2 means 2nd partition but your only partition is 1.

AFAIK parted can not resize a NTFS partition. I suggest using ntfsresize.
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html

john.s · 05-25-2006, 06:41 PM

Ok here's what I got now:

Code:

Using /dev/hda
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-39205.687 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor      Start        End             Type            Filesystem      Flags
1         0.031      39197.658        primary           ntfs            boot

(parted) resize 1 0.031
End?  [39197.6582]? 20000
No Implementation: Support for opening ntfs file systems is not implemented yet.

What am I typing wrong?

chrism01 · 05-25-2006, 06:49 PM

As michaelk pointed out (& the err msg says) parted does not support ntfs partion re-sizing.
Are you trying to dual boot this system with windows?
If not, start from scratch & use the graphical installer instead and tell it to re-format the system.
If you are dual-booting, try a different partition tool. Can't remember which one can handle ntfs, but have a search here; there is at least one.

michaelk · 05-25-2006, 06:49 PM

See my other post.
parted does not support NTFS.

john.s · 05-25-2006, 06:51 PM

Ok I understand now. I thought it supported ntfs. Anyway, I'll go search for some programs or maybe I'll go for ntfsresize.

Thanks for the help guys/gals.