At 09:45 12/04/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm trying to install Mandrake 5.3 on a Pentium II 200 with two 4 gig SCSI
>hard drives connected to an Adaptec 2940. I would like to install linux on
>the second hard drive (sdb). However, during a Custom install, after I
>select the partioning I want (600mb root, 128mb swap, the rest as /usr), and
>the packages I want installed, linux hangs with the following message:
>
>Making ext2 filesystem on /dev/sdb1...
>
>
>Can anyone please help me format my drive and install linux.
>
>kevin
>
Before you try something that might be harmfull to your current installed
system (windows), can you tell us how long you have waited for the drive to
format ?
You must know that formating a big drive under linux can take a very long
time (more than one hour), and so maybe your linux doesn't hang, but it's
simply making the file system.
(I've asked the approximate time it should take on another list, but I have
to wait for the answer)
Stay tuned,
- R�mi -
