Well, your experience confirms that my plan is possible.
That's definitely worth something.
This morning I took my daily crack ... at the problem, that
is, and DiskDrake complained the partition table was too
corrupted! That's strange because In Win98, ScanDisk says
nothing, and neither does Norton Disk Doctor, or Partition
Magic 6! And I know that PM6 and Norton complain when the
partition table is messed up--it happened only yesterday.
Maybe that's my problem--I have some strange partition table
problem, and only Linux is sensitive enough to speak up
about it. That would explain why it couldn't find /dev/hda
or the zoneinfo data.
Does anyone know how I can fix something like that?
Miark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans N." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 8:52 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues
> I didn't have this problem when I installed and I just got
Mandrake a few
> days ago. I too have 7.2 and dual-boot with Windows 98. I
did my partitions
> with Diskdrake, but also set up a /usr partition. I just
used the drop down
> menu for filesystems to select ReiserFs for all the
partitions except the
> swap, I had the swap as "Linux Swap." Then I was on my
way. I had no message
> concerning the checking of bad sectors though, just the
formatting. I don't
> think this helps you out much, but at least it gives you a
working "control"
> to compare with...
>
> Sincerely and respectfully,
> Hans N.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Miark
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 7:42 PM
> To: Newbie
> Subject: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues
>
>
> Nobody has even guessed at my problem yet, but I have more
> clues that may help you help me. Here's the full scenario:
>
> I'm installing 7.2 for dual-boot with Win98. When I get to
> DiskDrake in set-up, I choose to make the three following
> partitions:
>
> * Logical, ReiserFS, 5 GB, mounted at /
> * Logical, ReiserFS, 1 GB, mounted at /home
> * Logical, Linux swap, 500 MB
>
> It says that it's formatting the Reiser partitions, but it
> only says that for about 2 seconds. Then, when it asks
which
> partitions on which to check for bad sectors, it _only_
> lists the swap partition.
>
> If I go back and make the Reiser partitions Linux native,
> then everything is fine. Well, it's as close to fine as it
> will get.
>
> Now I remember somebody on this list saying that what I
want
> to do is possible. Were they wrong? How do I implement
> ReiserFS and make it work?
>
> Miark
>
>
>
>
>
