David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a machine I am trying to install Debian on. It is an AMD-64 and has > a DPT RAID card. The disks appear on the I2O bus. > > The Debian installer recognises them (once I have told it to load the right > driver), and partitions them, but there is a problem when it comes to > formatting them for EXT-3. > > Either through the installer, or manually on VC2, the format seems to go > OK, but when I come to mount it, mount complains of an invalid parameter.
Please paste the error message. > The manual mount command I tried was:- > > mount -t ext3 /dev/i2o/hda/part1 /target > > /target exists, as does the /dev/i2o/hda/part1. > > The I2O maintainer is a bit confused as to why the disk is not called > /dev/i2o/hda1, but that appears to be a Debianism. > > I also tried putting a small IDE drive on this box, and then I tried to format > it using the installer, and that hung at 100%. Did you wait a while? mke2fs fills the cache and can then hang at the end for quite a while till the disk catches up writing. > David MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]