On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:14 PM, <bri...@aracnet.com> wrote: > 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 ? >
I don't know if ufs is the standard, but I didn't choose it. > 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. > The failure appears to occur after the root partition. That is, if doing the all-in-one thing it fails to create the swap partition . . . when doing the seperate-/home thing it fails to creat the /home partition. > 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 ?). > > I'll try. FYI - Access to my disk should be fine since I was able to install another OS without issue (the reason I don't stick with that OS is due to other issues ;-). Thanks, -Neal -- 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/AANLkTi=hsrqtmsogsq4ycz7kyg2+93ccrvvweetbw...@mail.gmail.com
