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Re: installation problem



I have seen circumstances where cfdisk (used by the install program)
would fail, but fdisk would succeed.  Try going to the console and typing
'fdisk'.

Mike


On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 12:19:52PM -0800, Artin Nebel Rebekale wrote:
> while installing hamm to my thinkpad laptop i had this odd problem.
> I've already checked the linux/laptop resource pages and they had no 
> solution for this.  Basically i get to the screen to partition the 
> drive, /dev/hda is the only drive i have (and therefore the only one 
> available) but when i choose ok, it just takes me back to the menu. 
> i've tried all the different rescue disks and this same thing 
> happens.  i switched to console 2 and was able to successfully mount 
> the drive and look through it, so the drive does work.  anyone have 
> any ideas?


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