raid517
06-13-2003, 06:17 AM
Mmm... Well I'm not sure what this is about, but when I select 'manual partitioning' in Red Hat 9.0, and go ahead and tell RH to use the partitions I have created, RH always says that the system configuration I have selected may not meet booting constraints.' (Bare in mind though that this is regardless of the partitioning configoration I choose).
My partition table is as follows:
disk0 :
NTFS (111GB)
Disk1 111GB:
2x Fat32 (39GB approx) (logical)
1x Reiserfs 39GB (primary)
1X Linux Swap 517MB (primary)
1x Linux ext3 200MB ext3 /boot (primary)
Disk 2:
NTFS external storage (114GB)
This might seem like a lot of partitions, but the reasoning behind it is to be able to sawp files between Linux and windows and I think there may still be a limit on the physical size of Fat32 volumes. In any case i have tried it with far fewer partitions, whereby RH was the only installed OS, but to no avail. Also when booting RH appears to hang for about 2 or three minutes while trying to enable DMA on my drives. Eventually it fails and simply continues booting. I don't know if its significant or not but I am using a GigaByte KT400A motherboard which frustratingly doesn't have an option to enable SMART in the bios. So I would imagine it is hard for the OS to check the condition of the disks?
On one instance the boot process dis fail - and presently seems to be perched on a knife edge. At one point I was caught in an endless loop of installing an OS, only for the boot sector not to be correctly written or recognised and then reinstalling the OS again. The only way to resolve this was a bios reset.
On a final note, how on Earth do I save my preferences in Red Hat? Each Time I log off and restart at the moment I have to continually create a new user (or the same user over and over) and redo all my desktop preferences. There must be a way to do it. Perhaps I have just gone 'computer blind' after sitting at my computer too long, but it should certainly be a lot more obvious than it seems to be...
If anyone has any ideas on what's going on here, your views will be very welcome.
Regards,
Q
Ps,
If I was looking for a non volatile file storage system what would you reccomend? On one external drive I have NTFS, but NTFS seems to get heavily fragmented very easily. It also seems prone to fail quite regularly. If you wanted to store data for a long time securely and without risk of corruption or damage, what would you use? Is fragmentation even an issue in Linux?
My partition table is as follows:
disk0 :
NTFS (111GB)
Disk1 111GB:
2x Fat32 (39GB approx) (logical)
1x Reiserfs 39GB (primary)
1X Linux Swap 517MB (primary)
1x Linux ext3 200MB ext3 /boot (primary)
Disk 2:
NTFS external storage (114GB)
This might seem like a lot of partitions, but the reasoning behind it is to be able to sawp files between Linux and windows and I think there may still be a limit on the physical size of Fat32 volumes. In any case i have tried it with far fewer partitions, whereby RH was the only installed OS, but to no avail. Also when booting RH appears to hang for about 2 or three minutes while trying to enable DMA on my drives. Eventually it fails and simply continues booting. I don't know if its significant or not but I am using a GigaByte KT400A motherboard which frustratingly doesn't have an option to enable SMART in the bios. So I would imagine it is hard for the OS to check the condition of the disks?
On one instance the boot process dis fail - and presently seems to be perched on a knife edge. At one point I was caught in an endless loop of installing an OS, only for the boot sector not to be correctly written or recognised and then reinstalling the OS again. The only way to resolve this was a bios reset.
On a final note, how on Earth do I save my preferences in Red Hat? Each Time I log off and restart at the moment I have to continually create a new user (or the same user over and over) and redo all my desktop preferences. There must be a way to do it. Perhaps I have just gone 'computer blind' after sitting at my computer too long, but it should certainly be a lot more obvious than it seems to be...
If anyone has any ideas on what's going on here, your views will be very welcome.
Regards,
Q
Ps,
If I was looking for a non volatile file storage system what would you reccomend? On one external drive I have NTFS, but NTFS seems to get heavily fragmented very easily. It also seems prone to fail quite regularly. If you wanted to store data for a long time securely and without risk of corruption or damage, what would you use? Is fragmentation even an issue in Linux?