Linux Installation problems
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Hi all, I have been able to install linux 7.2 on my PC. But I face the following problems. 1. With boot time I don't see window OS option, the only option which appear is a line "Red Hat linux (2.4.7-10). What have I missed during installation and how I can solve this problem. 2. My keyboard doesn't match what I type e.g. if I want to type "/", instead "&" appears. Where and how to correct keyboard settings? 3. I am using DHCP server for internet connection and during "Network configuration" process I clicked the check boxes "Configure using DHCP" and "Activate on boot". It does not work either. How to solve this. These are the problems I am facing right now, more may apprea on the way. I am sorry if these questions sound you very basic. thanks regards /rsasalm
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Hi all, I have been able to install linux 7.2 on my PC. But I face the following problems. 1. With boot time I don't see window OS option, the only option which appear is a line "Red Hat linux (2.4.7-10). What have I missed during installation and how I can solve this problem. 2. My keyboard doesn't match what I type e.g. if I want to type "/", instead "&" appears. Where and how to correct keyboard settings? 3. I am using DHCP server for internet connection and during "Network configuration" process I clicked the check boxes "Configure using DHCP" and "Activate on boot". It does not work either. How to solve this. These are the problems I am facing right now, more may apprea on the way. I am sorry if these questions sound you very basic. thanks regards /rsasalm
rsasalm_ wrote: 1. With boot time I don't see window OS option, the only option which appear is a line "Red Hat linux (2.4.7-10). What have I missed during installation and how I can solve this problem. If you have two partitions on your hard drive, the install should of gave you the option to choose which partition to install on (it's been awhile since I'v done it so it may have changed). I'v always used partition magic to set up my partitions with out losing Windows partition. Check out the linux documentation project website for more info. Look for the lilo documentation. You can edit the lilo.conf and configure it to give you options of what partition to boot. rsasalm_ wrote: 2. My keyboard doesn't match what I type e.g. if I want to type "/", instead "&" appears. Where and how to correct keyboard settings? I'm not sure about this as I have had no problems there but the linux documentation project site can help you there. rsasalm_ wrote: 3. I am using DHCP server for internet connection and during "Network configuration" process I clicked the check boxes "Configure using DHCP" and "Activate on boot". It does not work either. How to solve this. Are you using a lan or a dialup connection? To uninstall linux from your second partition use partition magic to do that. Simply delete the linux partition and resize the windows to partition to use all available disk space. It's the only way I know of to do that without losing your windows partition other than the slow complete backup of your hard drive. Sorry I couldn't help you any more - It's been awhile since I have done the install but I always fall back on the documentation project site most of the time. The Linux Documentation Site is located at http://www.tldp.org/ Cheers ;)
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rsasalm_ wrote: 1. With boot time I don't see window OS option, the only option which appear is a line "Red Hat linux (2.4.7-10). What have I missed during installation and how I can solve this problem. If you have two partitions on your hard drive, the install should of gave you the option to choose which partition to install on (it's been awhile since I'v done it so it may have changed). I'v always used partition magic to set up my partitions with out losing Windows partition. Check out the linux documentation project website for more info. Look for the lilo documentation. You can edit the lilo.conf and configure it to give you options of what partition to boot. rsasalm_ wrote: 2. My keyboard doesn't match what I type e.g. if I want to type "/", instead "&" appears. Where and how to correct keyboard settings? I'm not sure about this as I have had no problems there but the linux documentation project site can help you there. rsasalm_ wrote: 3. I am using DHCP server for internet connection and during "Network configuration" process I clicked the check boxes "Configure using DHCP" and "Activate on boot". It does not work either. How to solve this. Are you using a lan or a dialup connection? To uninstall linux from your second partition use partition magic to do that. Simply delete the linux partition and resize the windows to partition to use all available disk space. It's the only way I know of to do that without losing your windows partition other than the slow complete backup of your hard drive. Sorry I couldn't help you any more - It's been awhile since I have done the install but I always fall back on the documentation project site most of the time. The Linux Documentation Site is located at http://www.tldp.org/ Cheers ;)
Hi Jay, Thanks for reply. 1. I have only only one disk drive i.e. C: with 30 GB and I chose automatic partition and followed the instruction given in redHat book and hoped all should be done automatically. I didn't use Lilo rather used GRUB. Further, what is partition magic? I didn't encounter this during my installation process. Is it some tool to run during installation, how and when to run? Is it late for me to run this tool? Now how I can solve my problem of dual boot when I have installed linux with only disk driver? 2. I am not using dial-up connection rather I connect to a server via Breadband. 3. May be it would be better for me to uninstall linux and restart the process again. How magic would help me in this regard? thanks in advance regards /rsasalm
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Hi Jay, Thanks for reply. 1. I have only only one disk drive i.e. C: with 30 GB and I chose automatic partition and followed the instruction given in redHat book and hoped all should be done automatically. I didn't use Lilo rather used GRUB. Further, what is partition magic? I didn't encounter this during my installation process. Is it some tool to run during installation, how and when to run? Is it late for me to run this tool? Now how I can solve my problem of dual boot when I have installed linux with only disk driver? 2. I am not using dial-up connection rather I connect to a server via Breadband. 3. May be it would be better for me to uninstall linux and restart the process again. How magic would help me in this regard? thanks in advance regards /rsasalm
Partition Magic is a commercial program that can resize and move partitions without destroying the data on them. It's not part of Red Hat Linux or Windows. Exactly what installation options did you choose (Server, Workstation or Custom)? GRUB configuration is changed by editing the /boot/grub/grub.conf file. You can change the keyboard settings by running the "setup" program (from the command line as root) and choosing "keyboard configuration".
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Hi Jay, Thanks for reply. 1. I have only only one disk drive i.e. C: with 30 GB and I chose automatic partition and followed the instruction given in redHat book and hoped all should be done automatically. I didn't use Lilo rather used GRUB. Further, what is partition magic? I didn't encounter this during my installation process. Is it some tool to run during installation, how and when to run? Is it late for me to run this tool? Now how I can solve my problem of dual boot when I have installed linux with only disk driver? 2. I am not using dial-up connection rather I connect to a server via Breadband. 3. May be it would be better for me to uninstall linux and restart the process again. How magic would help me in this regard? thanks in advance regards /rsasalm
Hi rsasalm_, As I understand from your post, you've installed linux and now cannot get Windows to boot up. (correct me if I'm wrong) That happens a lot. What happened is that RedHat for some reason did not recognise the Windows partition and didn't add it to the Boot Manager (in your case GRUB). Because it's new installation I would suggest you to completely delete the linux partition and reinstall it again. How to do that? I think the easiest way would be to make a boot floppy form a windows 95/98 machine. When you've done that, copy a file utitlity called fdisk.exe (can't remember where it is located, but surely do a search of your C:\Windows directory) When booting using floppy disks run FDISK. It should give you a list of partitions. Delete the *secondary* partition, remember primary partition is used by WinXP. If you are going to reinstall linux, my suggestion would be to use lilo as boot loader. I had few problems using GRUB, so I don't use it anymore. About the DHCP server thing. You will not be able to use your BroadBand without configuring it first. I don't know how it's done in redhat, but you can use /sbin/yast2 in SuSE linux to do it very easliy. I don't know anyother way of "uninstalling" linux, except to delete partition as described above. I hope this helps a little... Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)
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Partition Magic is a commercial program that can resize and move partitions without destroying the data on them. It's not part of Red Hat Linux or Windows. Exactly what installation options did you choose (Server, Workstation or Custom)? GRUB configuration is changed by editing the /boot/grub/grub.conf file. You can change the keyboard settings by running the "setup" program (from the command line as root) and choosing "keyboard configuration".
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Hi rsasalm_, As I understand from your post, you've installed linux and now cannot get Windows to boot up. (correct me if I'm wrong) That happens a lot. What happened is that RedHat for some reason did not recognise the Windows partition and didn't add it to the Boot Manager (in your case GRUB). Because it's new installation I would suggest you to completely delete the linux partition and reinstall it again. How to do that? I think the easiest way would be to make a boot floppy form a windows 95/98 machine. When you've done that, copy a file utitlity called fdisk.exe (can't remember where it is located, but surely do a search of your C:\Windows directory) When booting using floppy disks run FDISK. It should give you a list of partitions. Delete the *secondary* partition, remember primary partition is used by WinXP. If you are going to reinstall linux, my suggestion would be to use lilo as boot loader. I had few problems using GRUB, so I don't use it anymore. About the DHCP server thing. You will not be able to use your BroadBand without configuring it first. I don't know how it's done in redhat, but you can use /sbin/yast2 in SuSE linux to do it very easliy. I don't know anyother way of "uninstalling" linux, except to delete partition as described above. I hope this helps a little... Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)
Hi Venet and other, thanks for replies. Now I plan to uninstall linux completely. Venet wrote: ************************ How to do that? I think the easiest way would be to make a boot floppy form a windows 95/98 machine. When you've done that, copy a file utitlity called fdisk.exe (can't remember where it is located, but surely do a search of your C:\Windows directory) When booting using floppy disks run FDISK. It should give you a list of partitions. Delete the *secondary* partition, remember primary partition is used by WinXP. ******************** Sorry in advance if you think my wonderings are very basic. 1. How to make a boot floppy and further from the machine I have linux now running has winXP and win 95/98? I have another machine where win95 is running and after search I found that it has fdisk under catalogue c:\windows\command Should all this be done on linux promt and how to access floppy disks in linux to run fdisk.exe etc? In short I find difficult to understant the above paragraph. Would you please, Venet, clarify little bit detailed steps needed to uninstall linux. thanks again regards /rsasalm
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Hi Venet and other, thanks for replies. Now I plan to uninstall linux completely. Venet wrote: ************************ How to do that? I think the easiest way would be to make a boot floppy form a windows 95/98 machine. When you've done that, copy a file utitlity called fdisk.exe (can't remember where it is located, but surely do a search of your C:\Windows directory) When booting using floppy disks run FDISK. It should give you a list of partitions. Delete the *secondary* partition, remember primary partition is used by WinXP. ******************** Sorry in advance if you think my wonderings are very basic. 1. How to make a boot floppy and further from the machine I have linux now running has winXP and win 95/98? I have another machine where win95 is running and after search I found that it has fdisk under catalogue c:\windows\command Should all this be done on linux promt and how to access floppy disks in linux to run fdisk.exe etc? In short I find difficult to understant the above paragraph. Would you please, Venet, clarify little bit detailed steps needed to uninstall linux. thanks again regards /rsasalm
Use your Win95 machine to create a Windows startup disk by following these instructions. Boot your machine with that floppy.
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Use your Win95 machine to create a Windows startup disk by following these instructions. Boot your machine with that floppy.
Hi all, I found a boot disk followed with win 95 kit. With the help of this I have been able to remove linux Boot manager i.e. command "fdisk /mbr" worked. Efter that I re-installed winXP and this time instead of having only one disk drive "C:" I configured the hard disk to two disk drive "C" (20 GB) and "D" (18 GB). Now my win Xp works fine :-)and I am standing where I started to install Linux except the difference that now I have two hard drives instead of one. Now I want to install Linux again. Any suggestions besides those written in the previous mail so that I don't run into the same problems I have had. Note: I don't have access to "partition magic" or such tool. Thanks for help /rsasalm :)
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Hi all, I found a boot disk followed with win 95 kit. With the help of this I have been able to remove linux Boot manager i.e. command "fdisk /mbr" worked. Efter that I re-installed winXP and this time instead of having only one disk drive "C:" I configured the hard disk to two disk drive "C" (20 GB) and "D" (18 GB). Now my win Xp works fine :-)and I am standing where I started to install Linux except the difference that now I have two hard drives instead of one. Now I want to install Linux again. Any suggestions besides those written in the previous mail so that I don't run into the same problems I have had. Note: I don't have access to "partition magic" or such tool. Thanks for help /rsasalm :)
Linux doesn't install on Windows partitions (what you call "drives" in your message), so the first thing to do is to delete your D: partition to make space for Linux (hope you didn't store anything important there yet). Next, read the Red Hat Installation Guide. During the installation, don't just click "OK" at every prompt, but read the help texts (in the left panel) and choose the correct options for your system. Don't use "Server" installation option, that will remove the existing Windows installation from your machine!