On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:59:21PM -0500, Robin Cook wrote: > I have a SparcStation 10. > > I am having problems formatting the the hard drive. > > I boot from the cd-rom (external). I then get to the point where it > asks to partition the hard drive. > > I remove all existing partitions. > > Select S to create a Sun partition. I creates a Linux partition, a Linux > Swap partition, and the Whole Drive Sun partition. > > I then delete the 2 linux partitions and create the ones that I need. > Partition 1 - 1 gig for / > Partition 2 - 128 Meg swap > Partition 3 - Whole Disk Sun Partition > Partition 4 - 1/2 of whats left for /usr > Partition 5 - other 1/2 for /home > > It formats the swap and root with no problem but as soon as I try to > format either of the last 2 partition I get a "Kernel Panic Free List > Corrupted."
Try not enabling the swap partition. See if that works. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
