Jens Ritter wrote: > > Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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). > > What do you mean by "using the second"?
I mean the second, Ramdisk, diskette. > > > 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 wonder if this is a known bug. Can you reproduce it? I tried re-running it three times. I'm reluctant to report a bug on Debian 1.0 software, though. > Please report it if necessary. > > > 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. > > Try mke2fs /dev/hdd2 or /dev/hdd5 depending on if the ~3GB is in a > primary or extended partition. # mke2fs /dev/hdd2 mke2fs 1.15, 18-Jul-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 mke2fs: No such device while trying to determine filesystem size > > /dev/hdd is the complete hard disk. > > Please post a "fdisk -l", if it does not work. # fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 973 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 152 306400+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 * 153 406 512064 83 Linux /dev/hda3 407 457 102816 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 458 973 1040256 83 Linux > What does dmesg report? # dmesg Linux version 2.2.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 Debian GNU/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #2 Sat May 1 14:07:16 EDT 1999 Detected 120001220 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 47.92 BogoMIPS Memory: 63280k/65536k available (940k kernel code, 412k reserved, 868k data, 36k init) CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 0c Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.00 entry at 0xfa6c9 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP Starting kswapd v 1.5 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2,EPP] parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present. Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ttyS03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured lp0: using parport0 (polling). PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x6000-0x6007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio hda: Maxtor 72004 AP, ATA DISK drive hdb: 665A, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: Maxtor 72004 AP, 1916MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=973/64/63, DMA hdb: ATAPI 5X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.52 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is an 8272A PPP: version 2.3.3 (demand dialling) TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP line discipline registered. SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY (dynamic channels, max=256). Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 36k freed Adding Swap: 102812k swap-space (priority -1) registered device ppp0 > > > 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 > > mke2fs is the formatter. > > Jens > > P.S.: Please vote against Spam! At > http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ > (Sorry Europeans only) > --- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter > Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- ----------------------------------------- Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IQ of the group is that of the member whose IQ is lowest divided by the number of members.