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Old 09-23-2005, 02:39 AM   #1
newtuxuser
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Debian - disk problem


Good morning,

I 'v been trying (6 attempts) to install Debian Sarge 3,1 (Deskop option)on a Dell733 - 128mb ram - Nvidia Geforce 2 (32mb) with a IBM 3,2GB and a Western Digital 6,4GB IDE-disks.

It installs normally but at the first reboot - Debian says there are disk errors - problems with inode and such... then multiple lines of dots and then the system hangs. After a reboot the computer stays inactive - not even grub.

Just to check I re-installed the Suse 9.0 which I used before on that pc - no problems at all - works as charm.


I reformatted both disks (ext3fs) with Debian so this can not be the problem.

I tried it on a maxtor 20GB (same pc) the last few hours - same result.
This is very strange - I used Redhat 7.2 , 7.3, Suse 8.0 an 9.0 on the same machine

My last attempt was with the 14 cd's - before I used ftp. It makes no difference.

Any suggestions to get Debian up and working ?


newtuxuser

Last edited by newtuxuser; 09-23-2005 at 08:09 AM.
 
Old 09-27-2005, 10:45 PM   #2
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Weird.

Sorry I can't help, but if you really want to use debian then you might try Knoppix or Mepis.
 
  


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