Martin Sarosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:... > I have been having problems with installing SUSE6.0 on my new Dell > 600MHz 30 Gb IBM HD > > I get to the point of partitioning and the thing times out > wait time too long InterCmd.cc detail 1 LINE:200 on another console > > I tried fdisk on one console and got this result.. > > default device /dev/hda > > unable to read /dev/hda > > Anyway I removed everything and used sfdisk to repartition the drive see > below.. > > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders > read: Success > > sfdisk: read error on /dev/hda cannot read sector 16450560 > ( > ----------^ > this is worrying me a lot! > ) > > Old situation: > Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 > > Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 0+ 254 255- 2048256 b Win95 FAT32 > /dev/hda2 255 1022 768 6168960 83 Linux native > /dev/hda3 1023 1031 9 72292+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda4 1024 4159 3136 25189920 f Win95 Extended (LBA) > > start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (0,0,1) > end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (63,254,63) > > I have installed a cut down version of RedHat 6.1 here. Which works kind of > okay I haven't done much with it yet. > > I then tried to install from scratch my full SUSE6.0 distro with same > no-result. fdisk still has no idea and sfdisk gives that worrying > error. > > Win98 as well as it could my boot floppy takes about 8-9 minutes to boot > RedHat off /dev/hda2. > > I know one partition is a bad idea but I'm just trying to get the thing > going. > > I am missing all my fave utils grep/find/Gimp/stability etc... > > TIA > > Marty > > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
