Re: [RULE] Second attempt via FTP on Toshiba Satellite 115CS

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Sunday 06 April 2003 09:52 pm, Da Worm wrote:
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> On 4/6/2003 at 9:31 PM Da Worm wrote:
> >>Then, run /scripts/pcmcia.sh, which should be the new version.
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> >Ok, got there, and ran setup.sh.  Now I get a segfault after I created
> > my partitions, when it was trying to format the / partition.  Will
> > try again.
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> Uh oh, whatever happened seemed to hose my drive.  Says hda is bad
> (should have been hda3, since I left a win98 partition, added two more,
> one as Linux Swap and one as Linux).  The Linux partition should have
> been hda3, shouldn't it?

Oh, my.
You added 2 partitions to a drive that had been setup for windows? Did the 
room for the partitions already exist, or was this one large partition? 
You can't take a drive containing one large single partition and break it 
into 3 partitions. Well, you can, but it involves some work.

What says /dev/hda is bad? Did you use fdisk or cfdisk to partition the 
drive? Have you rebooted the installer? (If not _don't!) Perhaps you can 
get some diagnostic info. The output of fdisk -l would be useful. The 
install log would be useful as well, if you haven't rebooted yet. If you 
haven't rebooted, could you try writting the install log to a floppy so 
you can mail it to me from a working machine? It should be in 
/scripts/install_log. If you have a formatted floppy, insert it, mount 
it, and cp /scripts/install_log /mnt/floppy

I really need more details to determine where we are at.
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