On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 02:28:32PM -0600, God_Hed wrote: > I am trying to do my second install from an official debian 2.1 distribution > CD. The system boots fine from the rescue disk and it looks like the hard > drive and CDROM are being recognized. When I try to partition the hard drive, > it shows the proper amount of available space on the hard drive and allows me > to set up the partitions I want, but when I write the partition table, it > locks. The message that says it is writing the partition information comes up > and never goes away (I have left it like this over the weekend). At this > point I have to turn the power off. I am able to DOS FDISK the drive and > format with DOS/WIN95, but I want to boot linux on this machine. > > IBM PC 310 > P133 32MB RAM 1.08GB HDD SCSI-2 (DPES31080) > Adaptec AHA2940 SCSI Controller
You might try going to a virtual console (alt-F2) and running fdisk instead of using cfdisk. It is often more robust. If this works, alt-F1 will return you to the installation script. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
