Re: RE:Fedora Core 2 uninstallable on my machine

From: Jeffrey Mutonho (ejbengine_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/07/04

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    Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 07:39:39 +0200
To: Jeff Vian <jvian10@charter.net>

    Hi there

    >Your summary of the hard disks indicates 3 partitions of type NTFS with
    >a total of ~80gb. I realize that you have 2 drives, but I wonder how
    >you are doing the install.
    I'm installing FC2 on the second drive , the MAXTOR 6L040J2 (37.3GB)
    , which is the secondary master.The 80G one with the NTFS partitions
    is the primary master.

    >Are you trying to install to an existing partition?
    >or are you creating new install partitions?
    Nope.I'm installing on a new partitions on the MAXTOR 6L040J2 (37.3GB)

    >Which hard drive is master and which is slave?

     Maxtor 6Y080L0 (76.3GB) ------is the primary master.It's slave is a
    DVD-ROM drive

     MAXTOR 6L040J2 (37.3GB)----is the secondary master.It's slave is a CDROM drive

    >Where are the NTFS partitions?
    The NTFS partions is where XP is resident(on the Maxtor 6Y080L0 (76.3GB) disk)

    >Can you provide an fdisk -l output for each drive (will answer the
    >second and 3rd questions above) and the answers to my questions above.
    Dunno is the info I've given is sufficient to provide a lead.If not
    I'll do the fdisk -l thing later today.The machine is sitting at home
    and I'lll only be able to access it later today.
    The strange thing is that FC1 installs without any problem.In fact ,
    that's what I have temporarily running on the machine.

    jeff mutonho

    On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 14:33:33 -0500, Jeff Vian <jvian10@charter.net> wrote:
    > On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 08:00, Jeffrey Mutonho wrote:
    > > Hi guys.I'm re-posting my message as the original on never appeared on the list:
    > >
    > > Hi guys.
    > > I've been battling with installing FC2 on my machine.My installation
    > > keeps failing with a message saying "Install exited abnormally..." and
    > > then a message for me to reboot the machine.I've googled and stumbled
    > > upon a post (at
    > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-May/msg05225.html)with
    > > the same problem and the response seemed to suggest that it was a
    > > hardware issue.FC1 installs without a problem.I've used the same CDs
    > > on another work machine and had no problems at all.
    > >
    > > There's a summary of my machine:
    > >
    >
    > >From the information on the summary below I see one potential problem
    > that none of the other posters mentioned (yes it may be a dumb question
    > but I want to rule out all the possibilities).
    >
    > Your summary of the hard disks indicates 3 partitions of type NTFS with
    > a total of ~80gb. I realize that you have 2 drives, but I wonder how
    > you are doing the install.
    >
    > Are you trying to install to an existing partition? or are you creating
    > new install partitions?
    > Which hard drive is master and which is slave?
    > Where are the NTFS partitions?
    >
    > Can you provide an fdisk -l output for each drive (will answer the
    > second and 3rd questions above) and the answers to my questions above.
    >
    > <snip>
    > > Physical Storage Devices
    > > Removable Drive : Floppy disk drive
    > > Hard Disk : MAXTOR 6L040J2 (37.3GB)
    > > Hard Disk : Maxtor 6Y080L0 (76.3GB)
    > > CD-ROM/DVD : DVDRW IDE1108 (CD 40X Rd, 40X Wr) (DVD 5X Rd, 5X Wr)
    > > CD-ROM/DVD : SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-240B (CD 40X Rd, 40X Wr)
    > >
    > > Logical Storage Devices
    > > 1.44MB 3.5" (A:) : N/A
    > > Hard Disk (C:) : 39.1GB (20.4GB, 52% Free) (NTFS)
    > > Hard Disk (D:) : 19.7GB (13.1GB, 66% Free) (NTFS)
    > > Hard Disk (E:) : 17.6GB (11.9GB, 68% Free) (NTFS)
    > > Clearworkdisk (F:) : 556MB (0MB, 0% Free) (CDFS)
    > > Tomcat (G:) : 88MB (0MB, 0% Free) (CDFS)
    > <snip>
    >
    > 

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