Re: RE: difficulty installing version 9

["adwint pandora be" <adwint pandora be>]

It may be a good idea to use a partioning tool, like Partition Magic, to "secure erase" the desk.  This way, all former data will be overwritten which results in a "clean" disk.
Do not attempt to (re)format the disk with anything else but RH 9. 
You will avoid conflicts, as I had to deal with, when I formatted the EXT 3 file system, using Partition Magic prior to installing RH9.

Good luck

Albert
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 redhat-install-list redhat com wrote:
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>I suggest you delete all linux partition and reformat the free space
>gained and install rh9.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
>[mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com] On Behalf Of Lawrence
>Kirby
>Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 2:08 AM
>To: redhat-install-list redhat com
>Subject: RE: difficulty installing version 9
>
>Buz Davis wrote:
>
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I sure could use some help.  I am relatively new to linux, having
>installed
>Red Hat 6.2 a couple of years ago and then
>>not doing anything with it.  Recently I decided to install version 9.
>I
>soon realized that upgrading from 6.2 to 9 was
>>going to be difficult, as I had not kept up with patches.  However, as
>I
>had done little with 6.2 I decided I could just
>>do an install of version 9.  This was to be a dual boot system with DOS
>(like my 6.2).
>>
>>I cannot seem to get version 9 to accept the hard disk.  I don't have
>trouble with the partitioning, but rather with the
>>check for bad blocks.  (Or, if I don't check for bad blocks, when
>install
>is attempting to copy something to the hard disk).
>>Install then reports errors and offers only the 'option' to reboot.  I
>have
>no trouble reinstalling version 6.2, however, and
>>although I haven't used it extensively it has given me no trouble (as
>long
>as I check for bad blocks when I install it).
>
>Are you getting bad blocks when you scan for them under 6.2? If so you
>have
>serious problems
>because modern drives remap bad blocks internally. These only become
>visible
>to the system
>when the drive can no longer cope, which means it can no longer be
>relied
>upon. If that is
>the case then RH9 may be applying more stringent conditions than RH6.2
>and
>legitimately
>rejecting the drive as faulty.
>
>Lawrence
>
>
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