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it.
The support guy might right, it took over an hour for my system to get through
that screen. What is happening there is that the partitions are being
formatted, and the file system is being produced. It is different than DOS, but
worth the time as the fs is better. As long as the cursor was flashing, I
figgured the system wasn't froze, and I just waited.
Ernie
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Gregg Carrier wrote:
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| Does anyone see this message? I am having a hell of a time posting to this list
and would normally not run a test posting. Sorry if this is the one that actually
makes it out there. Of course, if it is, here's my very annoying installation problem:
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| Here is my basic situation. I have a Pentium 2 266. Fresh new 20G hard drive that
I want to install Linux to. In order to ascertain that the drive works, I created two
DOS partitions on it and then removed them. Disk seems to work just fine.
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| I went throught the basic installation for Mandrake. I set 3 partitions. First
swap of 120meg. / of 4gig. /home of 500meg. I accepted the default packages to install
and selected to format all of my new Linux partitions. The next screen says the system
is creating the filesystem on hdb5. A cursor sits there and flashes, but after some
initial activity, there is no noise from the hard drive. This goes on as long as I
allow it to, just sitting there. Eventually, I ctrl-alt-deleted out, as there was no
response to other keyboard input.
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| Does this sound familiar to anyone? What could possibly cause such a hang? I'm
feeling pretty helpless, and the only thing the mandrake support guy said was "wait
longer"...uh I've waited up to 30 minutes and nothing is happening in there... Hope
the readers here know more than the support guys. Thanks in advance for any ideas.
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| Gregg
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