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Thread ID: 13811	2001-12-18 00:32:00	Red Hat, FreeBSD & Formatting	Guest (0)	Press F1

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27852	2001-12-18 00:32:00	I have tried installing Red Hat 7.2 and FreeBSD 4.4 without any success. It gets to the point where it's about to format but it won't format the drive and I can't determine the problem. It doesn't finish the installation because of it not formatting the drive. FreeBSD returns with a signal 10 error and Red Hat with another error. System Specs: P166, 160MB RAM (1x32 SDRAM 4x32 EDO), 8xCD ROM, Seagate ST6531 6GB HDD I was just wondering if there's a utility I can boot from floppy disk to format the drive manually? or else a fix to the problem	Guest (0)
27853	2001-12-18 02:19:00	More information ... has it partitioned the drive successfully? What signal does RH give? But here's a couple of things. I assume that the HD is OK. Boot a DOS floppy and do 'FDISK /MBR'. Don't use Partition Magic or any other 'clever' non-bog-standard PC compatible. Then make sure that it has no partitions on it: 'FDISK /STATUS'. Or put it a a slave disk on a windows machine and *fdisk* it as one partition, format it, then use *fdisk* again to delete the partition. This will give a clean blank disk. Partitioning is something best left to the Linux or freeBSD to do. And that will work best if it has a standard disk to work with.	Guest (0)
27854	2001-12-18 02:38:00	I am going to assume it partitioned them correctly by booting up into DOS and looking at the non dos partitions section in fdisk which seem to be showing all of the linux partitions made. I'll get back with the my most recent error for RH since it seems to change with the different ways I configure the drive.	Guest (0)
27855	2001-12-18 02:44:00	The recent error message I got now was: An error occurred trying to format hda2. This problem is serious and install cannot continue press enter to reboot. And now that I've seen this one I also got an hda3 saying it couldn't format a swap partition or similar.	Guest (0)
27856	2001-12-18 03:29:00	I performed the following steps, formatting and deleting the partition again. Went back to install RH and at the same place where it's about to format it did something different this time it come out of the installation and displayed rows & columns of hex values inside boxes and at the bottom Code: 8b 42 14 ff 41 10 89 c3 0f af 5e 0c 8b 44 82 18 03 5a 0c 89 <0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing. I have no idea what any of this means. I'm trying to become new to Linux/Unix but haven't been successful. Any more suggestions would be grateful. I'm going to rebuild a different system just incase it's hardware incompatibility and test it out on that. I'm trying to get Linux/Unix installed on a different machine before I add it to my dual booting machine that has all my important information/data on it.	Guest (0)
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