Dear Brad, Thanks for the advice, too many years of unix led to trying to use the mkfs command.
I tried mke2fs -c /dev...... This did not complete on one of the partitions, it hangs during the check for bad blocks. This suggests a hardware problem. regards Philip Griffiths Brad Mattick wrote: > > 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] -- 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]
