Rawhide trashes 320g drive on format
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed Apr 16 14:33:00 UTC 2008
Will Woods wrote:
>
> On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:21 AM, cloneu2 wrote:
>> I have tried over the last week or so to install f9 with a network
>> install. Everything goes fine until it is time to format the drive.
>> It will start and then at about 15% complete the system just locks. I
>> have tried the text mode install and at that point the screen just
>> fills with junk. It is a sata320. The only way I can fix the drive
>> is to do a f9 beta install over the drive again. I can't even use
>> gparted (on another f9 install) to reformat the drive with ext3
>> format. It will format in fat32.
>> will the preview release, if it ever comes out, fix this problem?
>
> Hard to say without actually knowing what the problem is.
>
> What hardware are you using? sata controller, drive model/size? how old
> is the drive?
Computer make and model?
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