On Friday 25 November 2005 12:45, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a machine I am trying to install Debian on. It is an AMD-64 and > > has a DPT RAID card. The disks appear on the I2O bus. > > > > The Debian installer recognises them (once I have told it to load the > > right driver), and partitions them, but there is a problem when it comes > > to formatting them for EXT-3. > > > > Either through the installer, or manually on VC2, the format seems to go > > OK, but when I come to mount it, mount complains of an invalid parameter. > > Please paste the error message. When I next start the machine I will post it. The installer just put up a dialog saying that mounting the partition has failed. > > > The manual mount command I tried was:- > > > > mount -t ext3 /dev/i2o/hda/part1 /target > > > > /target exists, as does the /dev/i2o/hda/part1. > > > > The I2O maintainer is a bit confused as to why the disk is not called > > /dev/i2o/hda1, but that appears to be a Debianism. > > > > I also tried putting a small IDE drive on this box, and then I tried to > > format it using the installer, and that hung at 100%. > > Did you wait a while? mke2fs fills the cache and can then hang at the > end for quite a while till the disk catches up writing. Yes I left it for about an hour.
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