[buccaneere]

I can't install Fedora 8 anywhere (of 4 hard disks in this box).

I tried 3 unused, unpartitioned disks for the install sda, sdc, sdd, but even with option 'Remove all partitions and create default layout', the return is 'Could not allocate requested partitions', for all 3 disks.

So I tried the sdb disk, where Ubuntu is loaded, and went with option 'Use free space on selected drive, with default layout'.

Same return as for the other 3 drives.

A bad burn is possible, but the CD is a pro burn that came with 'Fedora 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bible'. They packed a DVD too, but I've just tried the CD Live disc, before I swap the optical drive with my other desktop's DVD-Rom.

I think I have a setting wrong somewhere, that's stoppin' the load...

Help? Simple stuff gets the best of us geniuses (and us dummies too)

[devils casper]

Boot up from LiveCD and execute this

fdisk -l

* -l, its small L.
Post output here.

[Jonathan183]

I'll ask the stupid question then ...
Anti-virus disabled in BIOS?
Can you create partitions on the disk without using the installer?
What does fdisk -l report?

[buccaneere]

I fed the Live disk into the box again, and it seems like it is installin' without problems (probably wipin' my Ubuntu boot partitions too).

Watch for smoke.......................

[buccaneere]

I got the 'completed install' message. I installed it on a different disk than Ubuntu - sdd, instead of sdb, where Ubuntu is.

I re-booted, and Fedora isn't on the list.

Any ideas?

[devils casper]

Boot any Linux Distro or from LiveCD and execute fdisk -l command. Post output here.

[buccaneere]

[fedora@localhost ~]$ fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found
[fedora@localhost ~]$ fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found
[fedora@localhost ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/livecd-rw
                      4.0G  2.1G  1.9G  54% /
tmpfs                 379M   12K  379M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sr0              698M  698M     0 100% /mnt/live
[fedora@localhost ~]$

What does this tell me? Looks like Fedora didn't install?

[Jonathan183]

Originally Posted by buccaneere

[html][fedora@localhost ~]$ fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found
[fedora@localhost ~]$ fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found

You need root access to run fdisk command. Try sudo fdisk -l.

Ed: guess sudo does not work based on devils_casper post.

[devils casper]

Execute this in Terminal/Konsole of Fedora LiveCD :

su -
/sbin/fdisk -l

[buccaneere]

Originally Posted by Jonathan183

You need root access to run fdisk command. Try sudo fdisk -l.

Ed: guess sudo does not work based on devils_casper post.

Yup - good call johnathon...

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Looks like I'm in trouble too, cause the box is gonna' tell on me:

[fedora@localhost ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
fedora is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
[fedora@localhost ~]$

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[fedora@localhost ~]$ su -
[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 30.7 GB, 30735581184 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3736 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0006ca0a

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 26 3736 29808607+ 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00022288

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 9636 77401138+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 9637 9729 747022+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 9637 9729 746991 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000ce675

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 9729 78148161 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdd: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00023cc6

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 9729 78148161 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/dm-0: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-2: 188.7 GB, 188777234432 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 22950 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-2 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-3: 1610 MB, 1610612736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 195 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x30307800

Disk /dev/dm-3 doesn't contain a valid partition table
[root@localhost ~]#

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My Ubuntu load is on sdb, I'm pretty sure. Shouldn't Ubuntu + Fedora be loaded on the same disk? Does it matter to the GRUB loader?