Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just got a new HD and tried to format it using my Debian 1.0 > Installation Boot > & Emergency disk set. I made the disk primary and unplugged my current > 2.1Mb > drive and booted the first disk and partitioned using the second > (Ramdisk).
What do you mean by "using the second"? > I made a 100Mb swap and the rest, ~3Gb, Linux bootable, then made the > swap area > with no problems. But when I tried to format the Linux partition it > failed with > 256/373mkfs.ext2: can'r resolve symbol 'llseek'. I wonder if this is a known bug. Can you reproduce it? Please report it if necessary. > I then made the drive > secondary > and re-plugged my 2Gb 2.2 primary drive and rebooted, hoping to format > from my > regular system. I tried mke2fs /dev/hdd, but it says, no such device. Try mke2fs /dev/hdd2 or /dev/hdd5 depending on if the ~3GB is in a primary or extended partition. /dev/hdd is the complete hard disk. Please post a "fdisk -l", if it does not work. What does dmesg report? > I did > an apropos format | more, but didn't spot a disk formatter in the > voluminous > output. Can anyone spare a clue for a veteran? TIA mke2fs is the formatter. Jens P.S.: Please vote against Spam! At http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ (Sorry Europeans only) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37