Hmm. I can see a couple of things to check. When do you run fdisk? You have to run it right away for it to work properly before yast gets a lock on the disk. I ran it during language/time zone selection.
Can you manually format the partitions that you make? Run mke2fs /dev/sda1 for example and see if you succeed where yast fails. If so, then use expert mode and don't format. You may have to manually mount the partitions as well. Manually going through everything (short of installing packages) first is what made things go for me. Good luck, Brad -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Philip Griffiths Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 2:59 AM To: Brad Mattick Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] SS20 SUSE installation problems Brad Mattick wrote: > > Hi Phillip, > > A little late and a little tipsy here at 3 AM, but here's what works for me > on my SS20. > > 1. Start the suse iso boot process > 2. manually switch terminals (alt F2 or 3 or 4) > 3. Manually fdisk, being certain to create a blank sun image. If you've got > partioning correct everything works fine. > 4. continue install process Hello Brad, Yes, done all that, machine still hangs at the formating stage. Set up the machine yesterday and it is still sitting at YAST2 stage 6 with the bar chart at 1% and Formatting /dev/sda4 as /. dfisk'ed the machine so that /dev/sda1 - /boot /dev/sda2 - swap /dev/sda3 - whole disk /dev/sda4 - / /dev/sdb1 - /home - 1Gb disk /dev/sdb3 - whole disk I then jump back using Alt-7 and have been through both expert and automatic partitioning routes, but it still fails at stage 6. regards Philip Griffiths -- Dr Philip Griffiths, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland tel - +44 28 9036 8238; fax - +44 28 9036 8239 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
