Re: Error during installation of the base system (Was: Fehler w?hrend der Installation des Base Systems)
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 03:50:21PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote:
> Hi Debian team,
>
> since this mail was written in German and contains a problem report
> which prevents a user to use Debian (he cannot remove his Windows until
> Debian works :-)) let me translate it.
>
> Remark to Peter Kaser:
> Peter, bitte beachte, dass dies eine englische Mailingliste ist. Ich
> ?bersetze deine Mail diesmal, aber es w?re besser, wenn du in der
> Zukunft Englisch schreiben k?nntest. Solltest du damit Probleme haben,
> so kontaktiere mich doch bitte privat, so dass ich alles f?r dich
> ?bersetzen kann.
>
> On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 05:21:53PM +0200, Peter Kaser wrote:
> <translation>
> Subject: Error during Installation of the base system
>
> Dear Debian team,
>
> I'm a Windows user who want to change to Debian but during the
> installation of Debian-30r1 I always obtains the following error:
>
> After partitioning the hard disc [5000MB ... Linux partition; 200MB swap
> partition] and activating of the swap partition the installation freezes.
> It happens during the mount process of the created partition, current
> message is
> 'Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information:'.
>
> I tried all boot methods but always with the same result. There is no
> way to finish installation.
>
> Without help I'm forced to continue with Windows!
>
> Peter
>
> </translation>
Perhaps trying 3.1r0a would be better than a many year old 3.0r1.
Of course it is perfectly normal for the filesystem creation to take
minutes to complete while saying 'Writing superblocks and filesystem
accounting information:'.
Len Sorensen
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