installation problem

[Moonstain]

i am running mepis on a live CD. when i try to install in demo mode i check install over the whole harddrive and once i do that it closes and does nothing. when i actually log into root and try it i get an error. does anyone know how to get around this?

[elsheikhmh]

Would you please post the error message you got as root.
Also, when it close in demo mode could you try to switch to one of consoles by ALT+CTRL+F1 through F6? you may get some error messages printed there.

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Mustafa Elsheikh
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[Moonstain]

it says "Failed to create required partitions. Returning to step 1."

[devils casper]

execute 'fdisk -l' in terminal/konsole and post output here.






Casper

[Moonstain]

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 22585 181413981 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 22586 22598 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 22599 30401 62677597+ 8e Linux LVM

[devils casper]

you have 2 Primary and 1 Extended Partitions already. Mepis is trying to create two more Partitions and its not possible to create more than 1 partition now.
create one partition and format it in 'reiserfs' format. during installation, select 'Expert' option in Partition Section, select new partition and assign it / (root) mount point.





Casper

[Moonstain]

should install GRUB on MBR or root?

[Moonstain]

i finished the install and it told me to reboot my computer without the disk in. and i did that but Mepis didnt boot, i got an error after it ran GRUB. i didnt install GRUB when i installed MEPIS, should i have? if you know anything about this let me know. i think the error all it said was Error 22.

[devils casper]

you should install GRUB/Lilo too. is there any other Linux OS installed in your harddisk? were you using Linux Boot Loader earlier?





Casper

[wingruntled]

Moon
It looks to me like you have all the space on your hard drive allocated already.
/dev/sda1 * 1 22585 181413981 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 22586 22598 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 22599 30401 62677597+ 8e Linux LVM

sda1 is 181 Gig
sda2 is 10 Gig
sda3 is 62 Gig

Total 253 Gig

Now I see you are having boot problems. If you choose the default drive in the installer there is a good chance you wiped out windows on the default (primary) partition and that is why you are getting boot loader errors.