Very Computer

Can anyone tell me why this is being cause, and why the computer is not
recognizing my swap space?  I would also like to know  if there is a
book that gives explicit instructions and help for installing Red Hat?
Please don't suggest the Official Red Hat book, for I looked at it, but
got no answers.

For the record, I have an IBM Aptiva, Pentium II 300mhz, 8gb hard drive.

Thank you,

Matthew

Once Again, Thank you

Matthew

: When you do swap did you make it swap type 83?

Linux swap is 82.

: I have been caught up in the recent hype about Linux, so I wanted to try
: it on my machine.  I am trying to install Red Hat.  I use Druid to set
: up the partitions.  When I hit "OK" and move to the next step I get a
: message saying that I have not set up swap space.  Yet, I know that I
: did.  I proceed using "continue", then after formatting the partitions,
: I select the packages.  A messages comes up stating that it is going to
: write some info to the "/tmp" partition.  At this point a messages comes
: up stating "ERROR.  Mount Failure:  Invalid Argument."

: Can anyone tell me why this is being cause, and why the computer is not
: recognizing my swap space?

Unfortunately you do not really give any information, so can
expect help only from people who encountered the same problem
(and solved it).

Information that you could give: did you already have stuff on this disk?
What was the disk layout? Which partition did you designate for swap?
Was this partition formatted for swap? (Fast formatting for swap
means: writing a swap signature on it. Slow formatting for swap means:
writing a swap signature and checking the partition for bad blocks.)
If you did designate a partition for swap but it was not formatted,
then it will not be accepted by the swapon command.

I see lots of bad stories about Disk Druid. Mostly from newbies
that otherwise write a lot of nonsense, but some things are real
problems, and in case you try again you might try fdisk, if that
is possible.

You write 5.x without revealing the value of x.
In some cases Disk Druid uses a partition numbering different from that
of the kernel and great confusion arises (in the RedHat install procedure).
Maybe you can detect whether this happens by looking at the Disk Druid
output and the kernel boot messages. There is an upgrade for the install
disk on the RedHat site - older versions of Disk Druid cannot handle
Windows 98 extended partitions, and create partition tables that no fdisk
program can repair.

During the install, it is usually possible to look around at other consoles
(switching using Alt-F1, Alt-F2 etc). You'll see the kernel boot messages
somewhere. There will also be a shell prompt, but if you are new to Linux
it is probably better not to give commands.
(The situation during an install is somewhat complicated because the
root directory differs from what it will be after the install.)

: Just to clarify, my system originally ran Win95.  I used FIPS to
: partition the drive for Linux and Win95.  I allocated 4.5 gigs to Win
: and 1.5 gigs to Linux.  My version of Red Hat is 5.0.  (I got it with a
: Linux book that I bought.)  Do I need to use FIPS to partition each part
: of the Linux system that I want, or is that what Fdisk and Druid are
: doing?

FIPS shrinks FAT partitions. The rest of the partitioning
is done by fdisk. Avoid Druid - 5.0 is old.
If you have partitions with type f (Windows extended) then
you need fdisk 2.8 (from Jun 13, 1998) or more recent.
If you have FAT32 partitions then you need FIPS 2.0.