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Re: problem with instaing red hat 5.1
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, erez avraham wrote:
What you must do is assign a root parition. The root partition is named
`/' , and not `/root' like you named it. It's pretty obvious from the
error message, don't you think ?
--Ariel
> hello
> i'm trying to install red hat 5.1 on my second hd (wdc 1.2 GB)
> i'm using disk druid for the partition ,i'm alocating 4 partitions:
> /usr,/root,/home and linux swap but i keep on getting this :
> "you must asign a root (/) partition to a linux native partition (ext2) for the install to proceed"
> it's driving me crazy........
> the screen looks like this
>
> mount point device requested actual type
> =========================================================
> hda1 2047m 2047m win95 fat 32
> hda5 2047m 2047m dos 16>=32
> hda6 1004m 1004m "
> hda7 643m 643m "
> /usr hdc1 700m 1037m linux native
> hdc5 62m 92m linux swap
> /root hdc6 50m 74m linux native
> /home hdc7 10m 15m linux native
>
> driver summaries
> ================================================
>
> hda [732/253/63] 5741m 5741m 0 [##############]
> hdc [621/64/63] 1222m 1220m 2 [##############]
>
>
> what the hall should i do ???????????????????
> 10x
>
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