[CLUE-Tech] Fedora Core 1 on a 4Gig HDD?

[William]

As in my earlier reply, I ruled out bad media and bad drive.  I did run the integrity test the
first time I successfully installed Fedora on a different box (with over 20Gigs of HDD space), and
I later successfully installed Fedora on two other boxes.  I then ruled out the (potentially) bad
CDROM drive by replacing it with a known-working DVDROM drive.

I like the thought of the HDD being physically bad; it is quite old.  Can I test the drive surface
from the Fedora install CD-ROMs?  No... I suppose not.  Any recommendations?

--- Greg Knaddison <greg at knaddison.com> wrote:
> William wrote:
> 
> >I'd still like to get a fundamental Fedora on this box with it's meager 4Gig HDD.  Can this be
> >done?  How?
> >  
> >
> William,
> 
> This HOWTO may interest you: 
> http://www.simpaticus.com/linux/howto/html-single/Small-Netserver-HOWTO.html
> 
> It should work on an 800MB hard drive which leads me to believe that 
> there is a problem with your installation media and not with the hard 
> drive space.  Have you done the CD integrity test?  If so, do you know 
> that the CDROM works?  I've had copy/install problems that Anaconda made 
> sound like hard-drive problems but they were really caused by CDROM 
> drives that weren't working properly.  Replacing the CDROM allowed these 
> systems to install fully. 
> 
> If you try that and it doesn't work, you could also have a hard-drive 
> problem (bad blocks) kind of stuff...
> 
> Greg
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=====
William Kimball, Jr.
"Programming is an art form that fights back!"  =)


	
		
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