On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 12:02:50AM -0400, Ralph Winslow wrote: > I just got a new HD and tried to format it using my Debian 1.0 > Installation Boot > & Emergency disk set. I made the disk primary and unplugged my current > 2.1Mb > drive and booted the first disk and partitioned using the second > (Ramdisk). > I made a 100Mb swap and the rest, ~3Gb, Linux bootable, then made the > swap area > with no problems. But when I tried to format the Linux partition it > failed with > 256/373mkfs.ext2: can'r resolve symbol 'llseek'. I then made the drive > secondary > and re-plugged my 2Gb 2.2 primary drive and rebooted, hoping to format > from my > regular system. I tried mke2fs /dev/hdd, but it says, no such device. > I did > an apropos format | more, but didn't spot a disk formatter in the > voluminous > output. Can anyone spare a clue for a veteran? TIA > This is mke2fs /dev/hddn where n is the partition number. Also you dont say whether you made it slave or master, sec master is hdc. I have a ST310230A and never got any problem with it. I think I put it on the primary and installed windoze on it first as I have had bad experiences of installing that over linux. I guess the unresolved symbol probably means that ur executing the dynamically linked binary but /lib is ur ramdisk, thus the lib is not correct (maybe ur using glibc2.1 with a slink bootdisk?). Try with LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Hope this can help... -Lex
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