Installing RH 7.3 and HD issues

[KingGirl]

I have a PCI IDE promise controller card in which I removed all hard drives except the one that I am going to install RH 7.3 to. It's a 13 gig drive that I fdisk'd and formatted prior to installing. When I get to the partition screen, it sees the disk as 2015 MB. I then removed the disk and slaved it to my primary IDE on the motherboard and have the BI0S set to auto. It sees it when I boot, but then again in the installation it's only seeing it as 2015 MB. What am I doing wrong?!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[meowdawg]

Originally posted by KingGirl
I have a PCI IDE promise controller card in which I removed all hard drives except the one that I am going to install RH 7.3 to. It's a 13 gig drive that I fdisk'd and formatted prior to installing. When I get to the partition screen, it sees the disk as 2015 MB. I then removed the disk and slaved it to my primary IDE on the motherboard and have the BI0S set to auto. It sees it when I boot, but then again in the installation it's only seeing it as 2015 MB. What am I doing wrong?!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


More info might help ... Are you booting from the 7.3 install CD ?
Have you tried using fdisk to just clear all partitions and formatting and then try again ? What OS did you format it with ... and has the HD worked correctly in your system before ?

If you are booting from Linux distro CD, the disk partitioning and formatting can be done during installation.

meowdawg

[mdwatts]

Did you format the drive as fat16?

Delete the partition(s), leave as free space and start the installation again. Use Expert Mode so you can partition during the install.

[s3raphim]

boot the install cd.
choose diskdruid for partitioning. it should show you exactly what you have. delete the fat partition [if that's what you formatted it as] and format to ext3 as usual.
you should be fine.
if diskdruid isn't showing the space in any format, check the hard drive.