Subject: Re: freeze at mke2fs during install
From: Charles Stevenson (csteven@terraplex.com)
Date: Fri Nov 17 2000 - 12:32:16 MST
That would be check for bad blocks which is not really usefull unless you
know/suspect the harddrive has physically damaged sectors.
Charles
On Friday 17 November 2000 11:50, you wrote:
> 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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