It will have to be later this afternoon/night. I thwacked the disk with gparted and gave it a couple of partitions, and am installing it on that machine at the moment. I at least want to see how far this install gets before thwacking the disk again, and in a few I have to pick someone up at the airport...
I will also go through the routine with all my machines and collate the info. Thanks for the offer. I look forward to sorting this out a little later. EBo -- erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> said: > > I'm having trouble installing on a clean disk with the latest iso > > (2010/3/12). > > > > I first removed all the partition info (using fdisk on a gparted liveCD) so > > that the disk was clear. I then booted Plan9, and when it asked to install > > a > > MBR, it returned an error that disk/fdisk failed. This then caused parted > > to > > restart in a loop... Unfortunately it did not give me much additional info. > > if you could send me some information (off list), > i'll take a look at this. > 1. the exact error message that you see. > 2. at the installer prompt, after then fdisk error, > the output of "!cat /dev/kmesg". > 3. the output of lspci -n (or similar) from linux > (or whatever). > > - erik > --
