The numbers you are seeing is the progress of a ext2 type format, the
numbers reference the location on the disk of the superblock copies that are
made during an ext2 format, one for each cylinder group. If my maths seves
me right, it is saying that it has finished a 2 Gig partition format
(4096001*512 bytes). If you say you're aiming for a 4 gig partition, you've
got a problem. It should carry on to just over 8000000.
----- Original Message -----
From: Gregg Carrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 6:15 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] install to primary slave hanging
>What is the absolute LAST line on Alt-F5? It should be something about
>"accounting information". If it is, wait it out. It will write "done"
>when it's done writing the final information to the partition.
The last two lines of alt F5 follow, though if this is any help it will
suprise me:
3989505, 3997697, 4005889, 4014081, 4022273, 4030465, 4038657, 4046849
4055041, 4063233, 4071425, 4079617, 4087809, 4096001
...and that's it.
It doesn't change. I know a lot of folks have proposed that it's a big disk
and it'll take a while, but I really don't think it's the case. There is an
initial spin of the CD, silence, a second CD spin about 30 seconds later and
then indefinite silence. There is no disk noise at all. I'm about to run the
install again now and I'll really let it go and time it.
>I take it hdb6 is the 4G partition? What are you doing with the rest of
>the 20G?
Correct...and I don't know what I'll do with it. I need some of the drive
accessible by Windows. My understanding is that Linux can access Windows
filesystems?
