I think this could be the source of the problems I was having installing it a laptop that had SuSE on it.
When it said it was formatting, it was very fast, too fast. Three GB in a couple of seconds. At 06:50 PM 10/11/2001 -0500, you wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >I just found a bug. I tried to do something fancy with my system >and screwed it up (as I do from time to time). So I tried to >reinstall RC1 and it wouldn't work. I reinstalled RC0 and then >tried to update, however, it wouldn't upgrade the "/" partition. > It seems that there is a problem with the types of journaling. > >I finally was forced to reinstall Caldera's 2.4 as no version of >RL would force a complete re-format of the selected partitions. >The problem with that is that different partitions had been >formatted using different versions of ext2, apparently, as >e2fsck from RC0 did not like the partitions and would not >recognize most of my partitions either as ext2 or ext3 >partitions. > >I reformated using mkfs under RC1, however that still left the >"/" partition in a state where RC0 said it could not read it and >RC1 did not recognize it as a valid or upgradable. I finally >gave up, and redid 2.4 and then installed RC1 on top of that. >It finally worked. > >The problem, as I understand it, is that, if the installer >THINKS it has a valid ext2 partition, it does a fast format >(removes file records only) instead of actually reformating the >partition. I would recommend for this purpose that only a full >reformat be used for the installer. I suspect that's what's >behind several problems people have had installing rl over other >distributions. > >- -- >Robert Black Eagle >Bus. Site: http://www.desertsilver.com >Protect your email with PGP or GNUPG >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) >Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > >iD8DBQE7xjBGtjSYKkYJrmcRAt1+AJ4xZ8J44uex7564/gaJwDB8ua1DzQCbBJSH >XigIeu1Absad2DlGr6jOZBE= >=6gDP >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >- >-- >rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of >message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/ - -- rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/
