I just got a new HD and tried to format it using my Debian 1.0 Installation Boot & Emergency disk set. I made the disk primary and unplugged my current 2.1Mb drive and booted the first disk and partitioned using the second (Ramdisk). I made a 100Mb swap and the rest, ~3Gb, Linux bootable, then made the swap area with no problems. But when I tried to format the Linux partition it failed with 256/373mkfs.ext2: can'r resolve symbol 'llseek'. I then made the drive secondary and re-plugged my 2Gb 2.2 primary drive and rebooted, hoping to format from my regular system. I tried mke2fs /dev/hdd, but it says, no such device. I did an apropos format | more, but didn't spot a disk formatter in the voluminous output. Can anyone spare a clue for a veteran? TIA
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