Trouble During the Installation

Trouble Getting the Automatic Partitioning Screen?

If the Automatic Partitioning screen does not appear during your installation, you probably do not have enough free space in which to install Red Hat Linux.

If you do not want to partition manually, you should exit out of the installation, which can be done by rebooting your system once you have removed any diskettes or CD-ROMs, and then you can reallocate space for your installation.

Trouble Creating Partitions?

If you are having trouble creating a partition, for instance a root (/) partition, there are a couple of things you should be aware of.

Make sure you are setting it as a Linux Native partition type.

Unless your BIOS supports otherwise, make sure you are not exceeding 1023 cylinders, otherwise you will not be able to create a /boot or a / partition. Some new systems will allow you to exceed the 1023 limit (with the new LILO version that is available), but most machines with older BIOS will not.

Trouble Completing Partitions?

If you are using Disk Druid to create partitions, but cannot move to the next screen, you probably have not created all the partitions necessary for Disk Druid's dependencies to be satisfied.

You must have the following partitions as a bare minimum:

• / (root) partition, Linux native type

• <swap> partition, Linux swap type

  	Tip
  	By defining a partition type as Linux swap, you do not have to assign it a mount point. Disk Druid will automatically assign the mount point for you.

If your system will be a dual-boot system using LILO, then you also must create:

• /boot partition, Linux native type

Trouble Installing Packages?

If you are having trouble installing packages (for example the installation program stalls while reading the packages or you get error messages), you may have a disk or drive problem.