(1) I actually got the Internet to work in Linux! Yay! I tried IRC
chat a little bit, but no one cool was on... and no, I was not
logged in as root at the time.
(2) To fix a poor partition structure (/boot, [swap], and one huge /)
and a few other things (odd... shutting down sendmail fails every
time), I decided to do a reinstallation. Plus that would give me
the chance to trim out some fat (such as KDE which I don't use
now that I found WindowMaker--beautiful...). Well, I'm ditching
this nice-and-neat numbered list block style!
Ahh, that's better...
So I give it a partition structure:
/mnt/c FAT32 1551
/boot ext2 16
/usr ext2 771
/root ext2 35
[swap] swap 66
/home ext2 322
/ ext2 330
(disk size: 3102 MB)
(Any suggestions for improvement? I have Partition Magic and can
move/shrink /mnt/c...)
Then I pick out the packages I want (take a long time since I pick out
each individually) and have it format the partitions. After all the
partition formatting is done, it fails.
A dialog box pops up with the message "mount fialed: Invalid argument"
and I am stopped. I switched over to the other virtual consoles to see
what was the matter.
Console 3:
running mke2fs /tmp/hda7 -c
...
stuff
...
mounting hda11 on /mnt/ as type ext2
calling mount(/tmp/hda11, /mnt/, ext2, -1058209792, (nil))
(I guess that last line was what failed)
Console 4:
<4> EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
And also something about attempting to access byeond end of device...
So, guys, what's up? I want my Mandrake back!
p.s. I'll be getting a nice 4-CD Red Hat 6 set tomorrow (or soon).
Cheap*Bytes had a great deal on it! It was, uhm, $7 US.
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