RE: redhat 80

["Mark Tinka" <mtinka at africaonline.co.ug>]

You might want to check the integrity of your CD-ROMs. Since you are pretty
much getting the somewhat similar errors on 2 different machines, I can't
suspect hard disk failure, although you may just want to confirm.

If your CD-ROMs are bad, you may need to make new ones. Also, choose to
install a default or minimum package set, so you don't end up installing all
the CDs onto your system.

For a 10GB HDD, I'd partition this way:

/swap - 128MB
/swap - 128MB
/ - 990MB
/usr - 3000MB
/var - rest

But that depends on what you want to use the machine for. If you want to
install alot of binaries and source, then you may need more space on /usr,
but if you want to handle alot more mail and logs, then a larger /var is a
good idea. Or if you will have several users on your machine each with
access, a bigger / or a separate /home would be a good idea. Note that I
indicated / as 990MB as an example, because certain boot loaders, such as
LILO, may not be able to read into the MBR of the first partition of the
first disk if the size is beyond 1024MB. In such a case, having a separate
/boot partition would be necessary.

The point is, you can have several configurations when it comes to
partitioning your hard drive for an installation, but always keep the
installation at a minimum, and add packages after that.

Regards,

Mark Tinka - CCNA
Network Engineer
Africa Online Uganda
5th Floor, Commercial Plaza
7 Kampala Rd,
Tel:   +256-41-258143
Fax:   +256-41-258144
E-mail: mtinka at africaonline.co.ug
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-afnog at afnog.org [mailto:owner-afnog at afnog.org]On Behalf Of
Joseph.Minja at britishcouncil.or.tz
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 10:59 AM
To: afnog at afnog.org
Subject: redhat 80
Importance: High


trying to install redhat 8 as a newbie

first machine compaq deskpro 2000 with 10GBHDD running win98

, booted from floppy i created and when doing package checks it bombed aout
saying abnormal termination
booted again and went in as far as installing packages only to get 'not
enough space on' on / after tweaking abit i got /usr not having enough space
then tewaked further and started installing packages and somewhere a file
could not be opened and an abend happened and i gave up

second machine, dell GX110 9GBHDD virgin state
booted, and asked for auto partition but tweaked / and /usr partions to 2000
and 3000MB respectively. there after

"traceback (most recent call last)or is it list)
file */usr/lib/anaconda/gui.oy line 786, in handleRenderCallback
self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
file */usr/lib/anaconda/rw/progress._gui.py line 149, in RenderCallback
self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
file */usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py line 632, in nextClicked
self.dispatch.gotoNext()
file */usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py line 150, in gotoNext
self.moveStep()
file */usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py line 430, in TurnOnFileSystem
partition.doMetaDeletes(disksets)
file */usr/lib/anaconda/partitions.py line 1110, in doMetaDeletes
lvm.vgactivate()
file */usr/lib/anaconda/lvm.py line 54, in vgactivate
searchpath=1)
file */usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py line 66, in execWithRedirect
xhildpid=os.fork()
OSerror: ( Errno 12) cannot allocate memory"

and it froze there while giving me the option to save what i have just typed
between the "" but couldnt

please advise

on another related incident i tried burning the source CDs on to my new
CDRWs but the first one bombs out with an error but i can stil see the files
copied but the CD does not work at all

please advise on this too

does anypone have any source CDs. Downloading from the web takes ages and
oftentimes bombs out even before reaching 1`00Mb and five files with 650MB
each will take me ages

Advise too please




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