Subject: Re: freeze at mke2fs during install
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 17 2000 - 11:50:23 MST
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, John Twelker wrote:
> >I am trying to install Linux on the master drive. The problem is I
> >select all the packages to install and when I get into Linux the system
> >hangs or freezes while making the EXT 2 file system.
>
> YDL needs to put a timebar on the window. As it is, there's nothing to indicate that
> it's really working. It surely looks like a freeze but may not be. Just go fix a cup of
> coffee, relax with a good book and come back half an hour later ... or so. It took at
> least that long to finish the job on my iMac 500.
This is only a problem if you check the "low level format" box before
formatting (I forget the exact wording). Believe it or not, that makes it
much slower.
-Hollis
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