Question on Dell 700m - RHEL 3 & Fedora 4

[Chong Yu Meng]

Vu Pham wrote:

>The installations went well
>without any problem but after the installation, the system booted with some
>error relating to disk format.
>
>I tried two times, one with a default installation ( that FC4 uses Volume
>Group ) and the second time with manual partitioning which I did not use the
>volume group and just set the simple case of three partitions boot, root and
>swap. Both installation ended up with partition/disk error at the first boot
>after installation.
>  
>

Hi Vu,

You're probably either using existing partitions or doing manual 
partitioning. You are right that FC4 uses LVM (Logical Volume Manager). 
I've only had success with Automatic Partitioning during installation, 
then tweaking the partitions after choosing that option. Hope this helps!

Regards,
pascal chong