Re: fresh squeeze install fails to partition

["Dr. Ed Morbius" <dredmorbius@gmail.com>]

on 18:43 Tue 15 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealhogan@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> My goal was to install the debian GNU/bsd system, but things seemed to
> be messed up. I've tried the mini.iso and full net-iso for both the
> gnu/bsd and gnu/linux system (i386) and no matter what I try it fails
> to partition my drive.
> 
>   eg.
>      "[!!] Partition disks
>       Failed to create a file system
>       The ufs file system creation in partition #6 of ATA1 (ad0) failed"

1:  ufs?  I'd think ext3 (and possibly ext4) would be standard.

2:  What happens if you create a filesystem manually?

3:  Have you checked the disk for errors?  Badblocks, checking for any
I/O or read/seek complete errors in dmesg.

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