Re: Lock-up at CFDISK
On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 02:28:32PM -0600, God_Hed wrote:
> I am trying to do my second install from an official debian 2.1 distribution
> CD. The system boots fine from the rescue disk and it looks like the hard
> drive and CDROM are being recognized. When I try to partition the hard drive,
> it shows the proper amount of available space on the hard drive and allows me
> to set up the partitions I want, but when I write the partition table, it
> locks. The message that says it is writing the partition information comes up
> and never goes away (I have left it like this over the weekend). At this
> point I have to turn the power off. I am able to DOS FDISK the drive and
> format with DOS/WIN95, but I want to boot linux on this machine.
>
> IBM PC 310
> P133 32MB RAM 1.08GB HDD SCSI-2 (DPES31080)
> Adaptec AHA2940 SCSI Controller
You might try going to a virtual console (alt-F2) and running fdisk
instead of using cfdisk. It is often more robust. If this works,
alt-F1 will return you to the installation script.
Bob
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