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Old 03-15-2007, 08:35 PM   #1
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Install Problem (original title)


Ok, I have decided to join the bandwagon, problem is, the door won't open. I boot the CD and it says I need to partition my drive. So, question 1-is there an auto setting that does it for you? Then, I try to select hd1
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fdisk -u (hd1 location)
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The device cannot be opened.
Now, I have the drive formatted to ext3, and the boot mentions ext2 something or other. Do I use Gparted to reformat the drive?

I burned my discs at 8x, I tried 4x, but the CD's write speed wouldn't allow it.
 
Old 03-15-2007, 08:43 PM   #2
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Slack is pretty much a hands on distro. I'd try cfdisk to examine your partitions. If you're happy with what you have, use those. If not, create them with cfdisk.

Don't worry about the ext2 thing.

My partitions are formatted as reiserfs. Well, except for the swap LOL
 
Old 03-15-2007, 08:45 PM   #3
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I tried cfdisk, it says it had an error and couldn't start or something. All I know is that it didn't work. Should i burn again?
 
Old 03-15-2007, 09:13 PM   #4
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No suggestions left??
 
Old 03-15-2007, 09:27 PM   #5
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so you ran 'fdisk /dev/hda' or 'fdisk /dev/sda' for sata.

What kernel are you booting ? What kind of hard-drive do you have ?
 
Old 03-15-2007, 09:32 PM   #6
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Hard drive is an old Maxtor 9136OU4. All I know is its Slackware 10.2

Also, I just noticed it is i486, I usually get i386, although I have a really new computer.

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Old 03-15-2007, 09:59 PM   #7
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Press F2 or F3 before booting any kernel, and boot another kernel. Just type the name of the kernel and press Enter to boot.

You know at the:

boot:
 
Old 03-16-2007, 05:17 AM   #8
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what kernel do I want to boot?
 
Old 03-16-2007, 06:01 AM   #9
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Can you tell us what the command
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fdisk -l
returns after you booted from the CD and are at the prompt? If your disk is recognized it should show up in that listing, and you should see any partitions that the disk already contains.

Eric
 
Old 03-16-2007, 06:56 AM   #10
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OK, I will when I get home. I am at work now...
 
  


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