stumped on install--won't initialize swap <Writing inode tables: 1/15>
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Greetings:
I have a friend on the other coast who is stumped trying to get Debian Woody
to initialize the newly created swap partition. Today we coordinated over
the telephone and re-ran the Woody partition utility from the Woody CDROM.
We deleted both hda1(swap) and hda2(linux) partitions leaving no partitions
on the 2GB hard disk. We then created a new swap (128MB) and the root
partition(remaining space) and toggled the boot flag on the root partition.
We wrote the info to the drive and came back to the main installation page.
We are next prompted to run a back block check which we didn't run, followed
by the mounting of the swap space. Here it fails and the system locks up.
On the screen is something like: Writing inode tables: 1/15
The Woody ISO is dated 17/07/2002 that I pulled from a mirror.
We also tried to run the bad block on another attempt, but it also locks up.
Has anyone run into this before? I would really like to get past the failure
:) Any help greatly appreciated.
tia, tatah
PC = Compaq Pentium 166
2.1 G HD/ 64 MB RAM
Network Card 3-C905B TX Fast Etherlink (Ethernet)
No sound card.
No modem.
Video card: S3-Trio64V2GX (embedded chip set, PCI buss on motherboard)
Gateway 2000 CrystalScan 1024NI monitor
No sound card
Printer: hpdeskjet 940c
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