07-12-2001
Installing RedHat Linux 7
Hey everybody. Its been awhile since I last posted but in short I am now in posession of RedHat Linux 7.0 which I got from a book called the RedHat 7 Bible. As this is not an official distribution I cannot get product support from RedHat so I decided to try here.
I have three computers. I installed linux on my oldest computer without error. As for the two newer ones, I have had some difficulty. One my newest computer I have installed linux but I cannot configure the X Window System. This is because my Nvidia GeForce 2 MX video card is not supported by the drivers on the install cd, so I have to install the drivers myself if I want to use a desktop environment. This requires determining whether I have a uniprocessor kernel or an smp kernel. How do I tell? And another thing, how can I download the drivers and install them if I don't have an X Window Server configured? On the same machine I also have a FAT32 partition running Windows. Could I download the drivers in Windows, and then put them on a cd (I have a CD-RW) or a floppy and then mount that into the linux filesystem to install?
My second problem is with instalation. On my third computer, the video card was recognized and so I decided to install through the GUI. I run into a problem just after I select the type of install (Workstation | Server | Custom). After selecting Workstation an error comes up saying that the installation program found no devices on which to mount a filesystem. This is rediciulous. I have an IDE ATAPI hard drive with 6 gigs of unallocated free space and a separate FAT32 partition which is currently running Windows. I have even gone so far as to create the Linux ext2 and swap partitions before I install, but nothing I have tried has worked. What can I do?
If you have actually read through all this then I thank you. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
-TheGoof
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findfs
FINDFS(8) System Administration FINDFS(8)
NAME
findfs - find a filesystem by label or UUID
SYNOPSIS
findfs NAME=value
DESCRIPTION
findfs will search the block devices in the system looking for a filesystem or partition with specified tag. The currently supported tags
are:
LABEL=<label>
Specifies filesystem label.
UUID=<uuid>
Specifies filesystem UUID.
PARTUUID=<uuid>
Specifies partition UUID. This partition identifier is supported for example for GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition tables.
PARTLABEL=<label>
Specifies partition label (name). The partition labels are supported for example for GUID Partition Table (GPT) or MAC partition
tables.
If the filesystem or partition is found, the device name will be printed on stdout.
The complete overview about filesystems and partitions you can get for example by
lsblk --fs
partx --show <disk>
blkid
EXIT STATUS
0 success
1 label or uuid cannot be found
2 usage error, wrong number of arguments or unknown option
AUTHOR
findfs was originally written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> and re-written for the util-linux package by Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>.
ENVIRONMENT
LIBBLKID_DEBUG=all
enables libblkid debug output.
SEE ALSO
blkid(8), lsblk(8), partx(8)
AVAILABILITY
The findfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils
/util-linux/>.
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