[newbie] Reinstall of 7.1 stalls

2000-09-10 Thread Dennis Myers
I'm reinstalling Linux due to stupidity. Now however, the installation stalls at "formatting hda1" it has already formated the other partitions. Hda1 is the / partition and so far it has been sitting there for an hour doing a 5-10 second blink on the HD light. Any suggestions? What is the command

Re: [newbie] Reinstall of 7.1 stalls

2000-09-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Dennis Myers wrote: I'm reinstalling Linux due to stupidity. Now however, the installation stalls at "formatting hda1" it has already formated the other partitions. Hda1 is the / partition and so far it has been sitting there for an hour doing a 5-10 second blink on the HD light. Any

Re: [newbie] Reinstall of 7.1 stalls

2000-09-10 Thread Mwinold
bah you dont need to download anything, if your boot disk doesnt work well guess what your install disk is the main thing! reboot your comp with the install disk in the cdrom just like your going to install on mine i get a little menu hit enter or wait 5 seconds for the install, the next is