[97190] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Big Disk Installation Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Manuel Hernandez Rosales)
Sun Nov 1 20:14:17 1998
From: Manuel Hernandez Rosales <brausen@petra.acer.com.mx>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 19:02:06 -0600
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Hi.
The problem may be the RAM.
I had the same problem. I changed my DIMMS and my computer
works fine.
Manuel
On Sun, 01 Nov 1998, Jan Carlson wrote:
>John Helly wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> The latest adventure is the installation of a MAXTOR 6.4GB drive. First,
>> Disk Druid kept insisting that I hadn't defined a swap partition although I
>> definitely had. I used fdisk to get around this problem and now, at least,
>> the swap partition seems to be ok. However, after building all the
>> filesystems, the install fails (at the end of course after 10-15 minutes of
>> processing) with a message of 'mount failed'. That's it. I have no idea
>> what is going on or how to begin to debug it. Any ideas would be very
>> definitely welcome.
>
>What version of Redhat? Official Boxed Set, or low-cost
>Redhat CD from a 3rd party?
>
>Scsi disk? IDE?
>
>Show us the output from:
># cat /etc/fstab
># fdisk -l
>if you can. Otherwise, state what partitions you wanted
>to be mounted during the install, and their mount points.
>
>Also tell us what your machines firmware (DEL key at boot)
>says are the disk's cylinders/heads/sectors.
>
>Fdisk can do everything you need. You have to understand it and
>PC disk partitioning though.
>
>Disk druid charges ahead without finding out what you want.
>That's great, as long as you don't know what you want either.
>
>>
>>
>> Cheers.
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>Jan Carlson
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