On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Steve Philp wrote:
> Gregg Carrier wrote:
> > It tells me a log of my install will be at .. and then a screen comes up
> > saying it's making my filesystem. Then, nothing. It seems to just hang up. I
> > can switch to the debugging screens with alt F5, alt F4, and alt F3. F4
> > shows a big list of numbers separated by commas. It is unchanging for as
> > long as I've waited, which is at least 20 minutes. The last few lines of Alt
> > F3 are as follows:
> > Detected non SMP capable motherboard
> > running /usr/bin/mke2fs mke2fs /tmp/hdb6 -c
> >
> > The last line of the Alt F4 screen is :
> > Adding Swap: 128484k swap-space (priority -1)
> >
> > So, if anyone has any ideas as to why this install would hang, I'd really
> > appreciate your help. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Gregg
>
> 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.
>
> I take it hdb6 is the 4G partition? What are you doing with the rest of
> the 20G?
>
> I agree that 20 minutes is an awful long time.
>
Didn't happen to check "growable" while in diskdruid did you?
My disk takes about 30 mins to run thru fsck, i forget how long it took to
format a 15gig partition (fell asleep :) ) anyways, if you selected
"growable" that 4gig partition you asked for is going to come out to
just under 19G and will take awhile..
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