On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Dale Snell wrote: > Hrm, yeah, you probably should. It takes time to format a partition, so > control should never return immediately. Especially in your case, where > sda1 is 300Gig. That's going to take time to format, regardless of > whether you're checking for bad blocks or not.
Dale, That's why I kept repeating the fdisk partitioning. > As a test, you could try hooking this disk into your regular system. Then > you could do the formatting directly from the command line, and see how > long things take. Just to see if the installer is ignoring an error or > something. You can also set mke2fs to be verbose, and it'll give you all > sorts of info while it works. It's a 2.5" portable drive. What I suspect is that the original win7 did something funky to the beginning of the hard drive that xubuntu ignored when I installed that but which catches slackware. I'm re-installing xubuntu (or, at least, running it without installation) to see if I can identify what happened to the hard drive. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
