>>>>> On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:48:47 +0000, Karsten Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> said:
> I tried to install Debian 1.1 on a 4GB Partition using the kernel 2.07
> with NCR8010 Support. The disk is a Quantum Atlas.
> After writing 255 inodes on disk the formatting stopped with
> the message "Can't resolve symbol llseek".
I also have a Quantum Atlas, and the same thing happened to me. Apparently
some piece of software required to format beyond 255 inodes is not compiled
into the kernel on the boot floppy. I worked around it as follows:
1. Created a single 300MB partition, left everything beyond that partition as
free space.
2. Installed Linux on the existing partition, including /usr.
3. Used my installed Linux to create a new partition and initialize the file
system on the remaining disk space.
4. Mounted the new partition on /mnt.
5. Copied all of /usr over to the new partition, using cp -a.
6. (IMPORTANT!) Checked to make sure that all /usr files were in their proper
places in the new partition.
7. Edited /etc/fstab to mount the new partition as /usr when the system
starts up.
8. Deleted all /usr files from the original partition with rm -r /usr.
9. Created a new, empty /usr directory with mkdir /usr.
10. Unmounted the new partition and remounted it on /usr.
This worked the first time, and I've had no problems with the system since
then.
-Randy
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