[tangothreeze]

I am trying to install Red Hat Linux 7.3
I have patitioned with Partition Magic. When I reach the
partition page as shown below, it asks me to define root
partition also mount points. Help would be most appreciated.

DEVICE START END SIZE (Mb) TYPE MOUNT PT. FORMAT

/dev/hda6 264 3160 22725 ext2 no

/dev/hda1 3161 7106 30953 vfat no

[lynch]

You're not giving us much info,tangothreeze.
Are you atempting a dual-boot with an existing windows installation?
If so,do this:

• Go back in with PartitionMagic and delete the linux partitions you created.You should now have a section of unallocated free space.
• Run scandisk and defrag your hard drive.
• While re-booting your computer,enter your bios setup and disable Plug and Play(Also check that it's set to boot from CD drive).
• Before saving the bios settings and letting the computer reboot,put the RH install CD(#1) in the CD drive,then save settings and let it boot from the CD.
• When it gets to the partitioning stage,choose to install Linux on the unallocated free space while preserving windows.

If you are devoting the entire hard drive to Redhat,then delete all the partitions with PM,boot with the Redhat CD and choose to give Linux the entire drive.
HTH
lynch

[tangothreeze]

Thanks for your'e help Lynch

I installed Red Hat 7.3 but on booting it got as far as:-

hda6: bad access: block=64, count=2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06 (fda), sector 64
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev= 03:06, iso_blknum= 16,
block= 32
Kernel Panic: VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:06

Also it would not boot from Boot Magic only from a boot disk
Also during installation it did not recognise my modem which is
external PhonicProV.92/V.90

[lynch]

One thing I think it may be is your hard drive partition table is still a jumbled mess
Also what filesystem did you format the Redhat partitions as-Reiserfs,ext3 ?
If Reiserfs,there are a few issues it has with certain drives/setups.I had a SuSE install(using Reiserfs) that seemed to install very quickly;almost too quickly
And then on reboot,it spat out errors like yours.This is what I did;others may have methods that vary:[list=1][*]Downloaded the hard drive manufacturer's's disk utilities and did a disk scan[*]Saved everything I wanted to keep to cd-r(you can put that stuff on the other drive maybe?)[*]Booted off the Redhat install CD(CD#1) and try to boot from that(link [/list=1]
If it will find your installation and boot it,you can run fsck to double-check the drive.
What I did in my case was to save my data,wiped the entire drive clean and installed SuSE using ext3 filesystem.It worked fine after that.
There's always a chance this wont fix the problem but it worked in my case.
HTH
lynch