On Thursday 04 August 2005 02:21 pm, John Bowden wrote:
| Well it seems that the install DVD was corrupt. As I downloaded it again
| and its now about 90% through installing. Not sure how it set up my hard
| drives as I went for auto install option.
| I should have realized there was a problem with the disk as it was
| installing in vga low mode! Hopefully the next email will be from my
| Linux box.
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Cameron MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: <[email protected]>
| Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 6:23 AM
| Subject: Re: [newbie] Install Error
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| > John Bowden wrote:
| >> This is the set up:
| >> hda5 5.8Gb Ext3 /
| >> hda6 1Gb Swap /swap
| >> hda7 29GB Ext3 /usr
| >> hda8 5.2GB Ext3 /tmp
| >> hda9 996MB Ext3 /var
| >> hda10 14GB Ext3 /nas
| >> hdb1 152Gb Ext3 /home
| >>
| >> It just spent what seems like an age formatting and checking for bad
| >> blocks and when finished gave this error msg:
| >> invalid hdlist description.
| >
| > I'm curious as to what happened to your primary partitions on hda.
| > Where are hda1 -hda4??
| > Cam
| >
| > --
| > Registered Linux User #388790 http://counter.li.org
| > Closing the Windows in my life
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| 2:25:47 PM ET - 8/4/2005
Sorry you had to go through all that, but glad you worked it out :)
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Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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