Re: Format I hing HD.

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:59:21PM -0500, Robin Cook wrote:
> I have a SparcStation 10.
> 
> I am having problems formatting the the hard drive.
> 
> I boot from the cd-rom (external).  I then get to the point where it
> asks to partition the hard drive.
> 
> I remove all existing partitions.
> 
> Select S to create a Sun partition. I creates a Linux partition, a Linux
> Swap partition, and the Whole Drive Sun partition.
> 
> I then delete the 2 linux partitions and create the ones that I need.
> Partition 1 - 1 gig for /
> Partition 2 - 128 Meg swap
> Partition 3 - Whole Disk Sun Partition
> Partition 4 - 1/2 of whats left for /usr
> Partition 5 - other 1/2 for /home
> 
> It formats the swap and root with no problem but as soon as I try to
> format either of the last 2 partition I get a "Kernel Panic Free List
> Corrupted."

Try not enabling the swap partition. See if that works.

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