Hi again, Fixed the disk problem. Botts with disk errors but now getting interrupt Aieee error Found all the logs but nothing of interest that I could see Will reformat Debian partitions and try agin
Cheers > Hi all, > > 1) Where are fsck logs kept ? > 2) What do these Partition Magic errors mean > a)Error 1221 Directory 913962 disconnected from directory hierarchy > b)Error 1201 Ext2 superblock contains illegal information > 3) Can I restart a 'bombed out' Debian install without reformatting etc > ? 4) Are all the files downloaded during the network install all stored > in var\cache\apt\archives ? > > > I am an inexperienced Linux user. I have dabbled with various *nix > distributions but never used it as my only O/S. I just got my shiny new > Inspiron 8500 wth 80gb hard disk without floppy. Threw a PCMICA card in > and did a network install of Woody > > Partitioned using Partition Magic > hda0 (?) is a 30mb FAT partition for DELL utility stuff > hda2 is a 20gb NTFS > hda3 is a 30gb extended partiton with 2 logical NTFS partitions > hda4 is a 24gb Ext2 > hda1 is a 2.2g swap partition > > I downloaded and burnt boot.iso onto a CD, booted to the CD abd the > install process began. Woody had finished downloading all the files off > the Internet nand was installing itself merrily (no errors) and then the > ninstaller prompted/recommended I stop card manager services. I said > Yes. Then got a kernel panic and the laptop rebooted. > > Every boot into Debian is now greeted with a warning/demand to run fsck > manually or e2fsck. I do this but get messages about the fixes failing. > Sorry I can't capture these messages (f.n.g newbie ....) > > LILO was installed and works fine, all the files seem to be in place but > configuration of X didn't happen so I imagine a fair bit of > configuration didn't occur.. > > Thanks in advance. > Gregor
