Re: Please help a newbie!!!!!


Subject: Re: Please help a newbie!!!!!
From: Erick Curtis (ecurtis@cache.quik.com)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2000 - 12:49:54 MST


Hi chris
I already tried that, any other ideas? Can you install YDL on a slave ID
drive?

Thanks,

Erick

chris@music.mcgill.ca wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Erick Curtis 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.
>
> Hi Erick
>
> My guess is that you didn't reboot after writing the partition table.
> What you need to do, is edit the partition table (with the tool provided
> by the installer - probably fdisk if you have MacOS partitions), reboot,
> go through the install process without making any changes to it the second
> time (just select done when it shows you the drive). Is this what you did?
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>



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