[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am encountering an error formatting large partitions (2.8 gb). > Equipment is a pentium 100, Adaptec 1542CF, DEC DSP5300. > > The drive partitions just fine, then when the debian install program > tries to read past around 2.1 gb I receive a message "badblocks: Cant > resolve symbol llseek". > > Also, I receive this message when past this point and writing the > inode tables, "256/350 mkfs.ext2: Can't resolve symbol llseek" > > Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? > > Thanks for any help,
I do not know why this happens, only that the same thing happend to me when I tried to format my Quantum Sirrocco 2.5 Gig hard drive. Around about the 2.1 gig it starts reporting errors. I can only assume that the system cannot handle partitions over 2 gig. This is not that big a problem as you can use quite a few partitions on you hard drive. If you read the debian.FAQ document, it has some guide lines on what sizes you should make your partitions and what they should be mounted as. -- Be seeing you... xXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx Johnny Stevenson 2nd Year Bsc Computing Science E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~n4215605 xXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx
