Re: [newbie] 9.1 installation a real mess

[John Richard Smith]

Teilhard Knight wrote:

On Thursday 03 April 2003 03:36, you wrote:
 

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 13:34, Teilhard Knight wrote:
   

On Thursday 03 April 2003 02:13 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
     

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:58, Teilhard Knight wrote:
       

As I posted before, I installed 9.1 on a HD on the (master) secondary
IDE channel. Problem is that almost anything is loaded as "read only"
on boot. I tried to install the NVIDIA drivers but I couldn't,
because no directory could be created because it is a read only
file-system. I installed twice. First, I put the bootloader in the
partition and in the second at the beginning of the disk (MBR
according to the installation, but the MBR is in the other disk).
There was no difference. There is no problem with the machine
booting, though. Any ideas of what is happenig to me?
Teilhard Knight
         

What filesystem are you using?
       

Ext3. Coud that be the issue?
Teilhard Knight
     

Nah - has to be something else...I'm wondering if you disable msec if
that will help...
   



Actually that was the issue. I changed to Ext2 and everything worked 
marvelously. I do not really know what is what the installation CD's do when 
formatting Ext3, because, as a matter of fact, the swap partition and the 
Linux partition were both detected as Ext3 (Journalistic). At first, I 
thought that the problem was that the swap partition had been formatted Ext3, 
and I went and formatted it as swap, but it didn't cure the problem. When I 
changed to Ext2, the CD's detected it as "Linux Native". I dunno, maybe this 
things happen only to me because I am a bad boy. :o(

Teilhard Knight
The Extraterrestrial
 

I don't think so, because whilst my experiences are not exactly the same as yours , in that I found the embedded formatting tool made a dogs breakfast of my ext2 /root base partition, the only one it had to format, everything else was a reuse of existing usage. Mind I'm talking here of every M9.1 up to rc2 , not yet got a final release available to install to know if it continues.

John

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