[plug] Mandrake 7.2 Problems

[Leon Brooks]

Steve Vertigan wrote:

> Daniel wrote:
>> I can get all the way up to
>> the part where it formats the partitions, it manages to format the swap
>> file but when it comes to the root partition it just sits there, it doesn't
>> freeze up or anything like that and it seems to be like it's doing
>> something, but i've left it there for over 6 hours and it never seems to
>> pass that point.

> Only a guess but I once experienced that behaviour when I was trying to
> install onto a disk with bad sectors.  I would second Matthew's
> suggestion of trying to format with partition magic or some other format
> utility.  In my case trying to format with the DOS format program also
> failed but did give more descriptive error messages.

There are plenty of descriptive error message available during 
installation (this _is_ Linux we're dealing with): try using Alt and the 
F-keys (I think Caldera uses Ctrl-Alt-Fn) to hunt for meaningful screens.

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