I am having problems installing Debian. Here is what happens. The installation goes smoothly until I get to the part where it decompresses the selected packages from dselect. halfway through, it crashes with some kind of kernel memory error and forces me to reboot the system. Upon reboot, I get an "UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY" error on my /dev/hda4 (my linux partition). It boots in safe mode, and asks me to manually check my fs. I do an fsck -t ext2 /dev/hda4 and the errors make up about 20 pages. They consist of various inode, freeblock count wrong, and directory inconsistency errors. I hold down "y" for about 20 seconds as the errors flash by. Upon rebooting, there's a sprinkling of EXT2FS-warnings in amongst the regular boot messages. If I try to run dselect again, it stops with a "file not found" error, presumably because fsck deleted the corrupt file. If I try to run fsck at this point, it corrects a couple of errors. If I run it again, it says the FS is clean. If I reboot and check it again, it catches a few more errors. What is going on?
I have 4 partitions, 2 DOS, 1 swap, and 1 ext2. I run win95 on my dos partitions, and haven't seen any problems with the HD. Also in the installation, it did the bad-block check without any probs. This all started when I was using Slackware a few weeks ago. I was manipulating a large file (30 megs) when it froze up. I rebooted and was greeted with a "bad inode on device 03:04" error which repeated endlessly on the screen. I decided to delete and re-form my partition and try Debian, but it hasn't fixed the problem. It started happening also around when I ran Partition Magic version 3 to modify my DOS partitons. There were no errors. I dont know if this is the problem because I overwrote the partition table with the partitioning program that comes with the Debian installation package. There were no errors there either. Here are my system specs: intel pentium 120 ASUS P/I-P55TP4XE mb Quantum Fireball 2100 meg 32 mb RAM I am using the I/O controller which is built into the motherboard. My BIOS is set to LBA mode. If you have any insight into this problem please respond! thanks, -Paul H. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
