On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 02:24, et wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2003 10:09 am, Christopher Steimer wrote: > > I have recently purchased a book, SAMS Teach Yourself LINUX In 24 Hours, in > > order to inroduce myself to LINUX and all it has to offer. It comes with > > Linux-Mandrake 7.1, GPL Edition. > > > > I also just purchased a used Dell Pentium II, 450MHz, 128MB RAM, 8G hard > > drive off of EBay. > > When attempting to install LINUX on the machine, I am unable to partition > > the hard drive. I recieve an error message at the beginning of the > > partition process that says something about the disk being too corrupted > > and also receive the following error message when I try to Auto Allocate: > > > > [Writing of partition table failed at > > /usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table.pm line 442] > > > > I am new to this, and would like any assistance possible. But go easy on > > me, cuz I'm just starting. > > > > Thank you! > > > > __________________________________________________________ > > > > boy this is an old version,,, but it is about the same age as your box. > My first suggestion would be to try and upgrade to a more recent version. > That said, try and start over, this time instead of "recomended" go for > "expert" and do not attempt to "auto allocate". and also if you are > attempting to keep win on this box, first boot into windows, back up > everything, and run defrag befor attempting to install linux. study up on how > hard drives can be partitoned in linux first too. >
Sounds like the partitioning is choking on some partition issues - I'd tend to reckon that doing a manual partition is going to resolve the issue - OR upgrade the MDK version. Either which, you've already got the 7.1 and want to play with it - so go for the manual partitioning scheme and see how that goes... -- Sat, 8 Mar 2003 08:05:00 +1100 8:05am up 1 day, 9:30, 5 users, load average: 0.10, 0.07, 0.12 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | |----------------------------------------------------------------| | linux user:267497 * RH 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | ------------------------------------------------------------------ Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing. -- James Thurber
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