Re: [newbie] Formatting problems
At 09:45 12/04/99 -0400, you wrote: I'm trying to install Mandrake 5.3 on a Pentium II 200 with two 4 gig SCSI hard drives connected to an Adaptec 2940. I would like to install linux on the second hard drive (sdb). However, during a Custom install, after I select the partioning I want (600mb root, 128mb swap, the rest as /usr), and the packages I want installed, linux hangs with the following message: Making ext2 filesystem on /dev/sdb1... Can anyone please help me format my drive and install linux. kevin Before you try something that might be harmfull to your current installed system (windows), can you tell us how long you have waited for the drive to format ? You must know that formating a big drive under linux can take a very long time (more than one hour), and so maybe your linux doesn't hang, but it's simply making the file system. (I've asked the approximate time it should take on another list, but I have to wait for the answer) Stay tuned, - Rémi -
Re: [newbie] Formatting problems
- Original Message - From: Nick Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 12, 1999 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Formatting problems At 09:45 12/04/99 -0400, you wrote: I'm trying to install Mandrake 5.3 on a Pentium II 200 with two 4 gig SCSI hard drives connected to an Adaptec 2940. I would like to install linux on the second hard drive (sdb). However, during a Custom install, after I select the partioning I want (600mb root, 128mb swap, the rest as /usr), and the packages I want installed, linux hangs with the following message: Making ext2 filesystem on /dev/sdb1... Can anyone please help me format my drive and install linux. kevin Can you do a low-level format of the drives from within the Adaptec bios? Is the termination correct? Do you have active termination? There may be other messages on some of the other virtual screens - hit ALT F[2345] to see them. May the fish be with you. nick@nexnix I dont know if it means anything but i coudnt get linux to install on my 6.4 gb as a primary slavr...my zip was the master...sounds like the same thing only different...due to scsii got basically the same error 'cept it was something like /dev/hdb5... try switching it to the first drive John
Re: [newbie] Formatting problems
I'll try that. I had Windows on the first drive, but I can easily make that drive the second drive. Thanks for the info. kevin - Original Message - From: John Mandeville [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 12, 1999 8:18 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Formatting problems - Original Message - From: Nick Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 12, 1999 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Formatting problems At 09:45 12/04/99 -0400, you wrote: I'm trying to install Mandrake 5.3 on a Pentium II 200 with two 4 gig SCSI hard drives connected to an Adaptec 2940. I would like to install linux on the second hard drive (sdb). However, during a Custom install, after I select the partioning I want (600mb root, 128mb swap, the rest as /usr), and the packages I want installed, linux hangs with the following message: Making ext2 filesystem on /dev/sdb1... Can anyone please help me format my drive and install linux. kevin Can you do a low-level format of the drives from within the Adaptec bios? Is the termination correct? Do you have active termination? There may be other messages on some of the other virtual screens - hit ALT F[2345] to see them. May the fish be with you. nick@nexnix I dont know if it means anything but i coudnt get linux to install on my 6.4 gb as a primary slavr...my zip was the master...sounds like the same thing only different...due to scsii got basically the same error 'cept it was something like /dev/hdb5... try switching it to the first drive John
