The problem is that you used error checking on an old version of mandrake. If you are really using 6.1, the system will have a hard time talking to an 8gb chunk in the middle of a 40 gb disk. Switch off the error checking, and it should take about 20 minutes. In response to the other question, there is no redhat 6.5, but mandrake is built on the redhat distrobution. Redhat 6.2 is the base for mandrake 7.2. -----Original Message----- From: CFisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 2:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] install trouble I'm trying to install mandrake 6.1 on my 300 mhz, 196 mb ram pc which is currently running windows 98se. I have two phyisical hard drives, the master is 10 GB and the slave is 40 GB. The master is partitioned into c and e and the slave has only one partition which is D. All are used by windows. Using the full version of partition magic 4.0, I created two additional partitions on the 40 GB slave hd - one at 8 or so GB for the linux native and the second at 125 MB for the swap. Everything goes fine during the setup of the install - the target partitions are visable etc, the problem I am having is the formatting for either partition is taking an really long time. The first time I ran the format for the linux native I let it go all night (about 6 hrs) and thought it had frozen because there was no change - no progress indicator. While experimenting I ran the format on the swap with error checking enabled and in this case I did get a progress bar but the format was still very slow. Based on the progress bar I estimate it would take at least six or seven hours to format a 125 MB partition. Is this normal? I have also stopped both the native and the swap format by restarting the pc midway through - I figure this can't be good - but how bad is it and are there any additional steps I need to take to run the install (like deleting the partition and starting from scratch)? Thanks, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] p.s. whats up with red hat version 6.5 but mandrake 6.1? Is mandrake a flavor of red hat?
