On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 11:06 -0700, Sushant Vengurlekar wrote: > Hi > > > > I was trying to install Fedora on my Home PC which has three > partitions on it. One has WinXP on it and other is just a Data > partition. The drive is a SATA Drive. When I reach the step which has > the various partitions option on it the Fedora installer cannot > recognize the drive. So I cannot go ahead. Did any one face such a > problem? I was trying to install Fedora 8. > You say there are three partitions but you describe the contents of only two. Experience tells me that XP should be installed on first partition and installed first. Do you not have a swap partition?. > > I also tried installing FC8 on another machine which is a Dell > Dimension 5150 which also has a Sata drive on it with 3 partitions one > being for data and another for WINXP. On this machine the installer > hangs after the vmlinuz and the initrd lines on Ready and doesn’t go > ahead. Tried using the normal installation and text installation > option but same problem. > > > > Thanks > > Sushant > > > -- ======================================================================= The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. -- Carl Jung ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
