Big Newbie In Need

[Joeyp2100]

As the Subject says Im a complete newbie at Linux. I have Red Hat 6.0 (old - bought it from a friend, Yes I do know its free) I have One Hard Drive of 20gigs, I split it into two partitions One of 15gigs the Other of 5, The 15gig is for WinBlows and the 5 is for Linux (wanna Learn the basics before I jump to full HD) - I go to install Linux With a Custom Install - I use DiskDruid to Mount the HD, This is what I see:

HDA5 | 4588M | 4588M | Win95FAT32

I realize it says WIN95FAT32 - But as I said Im new, I select it and tab over to EDIT. I set it as "/" for root and it gives me this:

"Mount Point Is Illegal.

System Partitions Must Be On
Linux Native Partitions"

Please Excuse My Ignorance - I have a simple book here in front of me to try and help me but it mentions nothing about this - What Can I do to get it to work or Can I? I realize Im a newbie so dont start the flaming. THanks in adcance.

[Lovechild]

I started out with RedHat 6.0 to, and I have never experience anything like that, but if thou are truly a newbie, I was think about granting you the power of Drake 7.2. Much easier to install, and you have an up to date system. It has an auto conf. mode for newbies, which probaly would make your life easier, though it is more fun to do it yourself.

I know that this dosn't solve your problem.

You can order it from fx. Cheapbytes for only 1.99$ (I believe).. costs a bit more if you like be do not live in the states.

Or check out www.linuxdoc.org (http://www.linuxdoc.org) their how-tos helped me alot..

[Feydakin]

try this: if Disk Druid won't let you change the type of file system on the existing partition (Linux Fdisk will but that is messy stuff) Delete the partition and only that partition do not mess with your windows partition Immediately without rebooting add a new partition and set it as a Linux Native (type 83 I believe). then you should be able to mount it at /. this has worked for me in the past. However Remember any time you mess with the partition table you take the life of your data in your own hands I have also lost a partition this way but would say that I have had a 90% success rate with this method.

Oh yeah I almost forgot I just had this problem last night with Corel Linux and it told me that the root directory must be on a Linux native partition. I also had to make it hda2 and mark it as bootable in order for the Corel version of Lilo to work. you may or may not have to do that. and yes my method solved the problem without loss of data.

[This message has been edited by Feydakin (edited 18 November 2000).]

[EniSol]

Been here...

What I did mate was to use fdisk to delete the partition I wanted to use for linux (say I had 3 fat drives of 2 gig) so that there was now 2 gig of empty space on the disk and made a linux partition of of it (ext2fs). [BECAREFUL WHICH ONE YOU DELETE http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif]

Fdisk is a little more intimidating cause it's in text, but I found it better to use than DiskDruid.

Then just mount that as / ... Worked for me mate.

Adrian/Eni$ol

[This message has been edited by EniSol (edited 23 November 2000).]