Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > Is it possible you didn't initialize your hard disks prior to your > later installs? I imagine that debian puts a few files somewhere and > the installer checks for these files - that is, it thinks something > has happened (which would happen normally) but in fact hasn't > happened. > > If this is the case, try re-installing but make sure that you re-make > the filesystems (with mke2fs) on the drive(s) prior to installing. > > Elizabeth
Thanks for that, that's an interesting point... for the first install, I went into the disk partitioning package that debian automatically offers you during install (is that mke2fs?) and removed all partitions, remade them and reinitialised them. But when I install again, I'll pay more attention to this aspect... does mke2fs do anything special, or is it just a disk partitioning/formatting thing? thanks alex -- Now playing: Bent - Swollen
