Installation guide

You can also refer to the Red Hat Hardware Compatibility List, available online at:

http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/

3.2. Saving Traceback Messages Without a Diskette Drive

If you receive a traceback error message during installation, you can usually save it to a

diskette.

If you do not have a diskette drive available in your system, you can scp the error message to a

remote system.

When the traceback dialog appears, the traceback error message is automatically written to a

file named /tmp/anacdump.txt. Once the dialog appears, switch over to a new tty (virtual con-

sole) by pressing the keys Ctrl-Alt-F2 and scp the message written to /tmp/anacdump.txt to a

known working remote system.

3.3. Trouble with Partition Tables

If you receive an error after the Disk Partitioning Setup (Section 15, “Disk Partitioning Setup”)

phase of the installation saying something similar to

The partition table on device hda was unreadable. To create new partitions it must be ini-

tialized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on this drive.

you may not have a partition table on that drive or the partition table on the drive may not be re-

cognizable by the partitioning software used in the installation program.

Users who have used programs such as EZ-BIOS have experienced similar problems, causing

data to be lost (assuming the data was not backed up before the installation began) that could

not be recovered.

No matter what type of installation you are performing, backups of the existing data on your sys-

tems should always be made.

3.4. Using Remaining Space

You have a swap and a / (root) partition created, and you have selected the root partition to use

the remaining space, but it does not fill the hard drive.

If your hard drive is more than 1024 cylinders, you must create a /boot partition if you want the /

(root) partition to use all of the remaining space on your hard drive.

3.5. Other Partitioning Problems

If you are using Disk Druid to create partitions, but cannot move to the next screen, you prob-

ably 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:

• A / (root) partition

3.2. Saving Traceback Messages Without a Diskette Drive