On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Neal Hogan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:14 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:46:55 -0800 >> David Christensen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 02/15/2011 04:43 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: >>> > My goal was to install the debian GNU/bsd system, but things seemed >>> > to be messed up. I've tried the mini.iso and full net-iso for both >>> > the gnu/bsd and gnu/linux system (i386) and no matter what I try it >>> > fails to partition my drive. >>> > eg. >>> > "[!!] Partition disks >>> > Failed to create a file system >>> > The ufs file system creation in partition #6 of ATA1 (ad0) >>> > failed" No matter what option I try, the default, all-in-one >>> > partition, the seperation /home partition, etc., it doesn't work. >> >> is ufs standard now on a fresh install ? have you tried using ext3 ? >> > > I don't know if ufs is the standard, but I didn't choose it. >
It appears that ufs is the standard. It's definitely the default. I tried to change the filesystem to ext3, but it wasn't an available option (ext2, fat*, and swap were the only other options). When I selected the ext2 system it said that it wasn't a bootable filesystem and that I needed to change it to ufs. >> it's very odd that the all-in-one would fail since that basically kills >> everything on the disk and installs a single partition. that would >> lead me to believe that the access to your disk is busted, which also >> seems unlikely. >> > > The failure appears to occur after the root partition. That is, if > doing the all-in-one thing it fails to create the swap partition . . . > when doing the seperate-/home thing it fails to creat the /home > partition. > >> when performing the installation you can open a terminal (Alt-F2) and >> run commands from the command line. if you know how to use fdisk, it >> may be worth it to try and create the partitions yourself, to see if you >> can get some more error messages. >> >> I'm not sure when the current disk partition tool is for an install, >> someone please correct me if it's not simply fdisk (cfdisk, maybe ?). >> >> partman? > > I'll try. FYI - Access to my disk should be fine since I was able to > install another OS without issue (the reason I don't stick with that > OS is due to other issues ;-). > fdisk/cfdisk is not a command available at the command line (i.e., # fdisk <enter> "-/bin/sh: fdisk: not found" > Thanks, > -Neal > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
