On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:46:55 -0800 David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> On 02/15/2011 04:43 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: > > My goal was to install the debian GNU/bsd system, but things seemed > > to be messed up. I've tried the mini.iso and full net-iso for both > > the gnu/bsd and gnu/linux system (i386) and no matter what I try it > > fails to partition my drive. > > eg. > > "[!!] Partition disks > > Failed to create a file system > > The ufs file system creation in partition #6 of ATA1 (ad0) > > failed" No matter what option I try, the default, all-in-one > > partition, the seperation /home partition, etc., it doesn't work. is ufs standard now on a fresh install ? have you tried using ext3 ? it's very odd that the all-in-one would fail since that basically kills everything on the disk and installs a single partition. that would lead me to believe that the access to your disk is busted, which also seems unlikely. when performing the installation you can open a terminal (Alt-F2) and run commands from the command line. if you know how to use fdisk, it may be worth it to try and create the partitions yourself, to see if you can get some more error messages. I'm not sure when the current disk partition tool is for an install, someone please correct me if it's not simply fdisk (cfdisk, maybe ?). Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110215211427.1f684...@windy.deldotd.com
