Rawhide trashes 320g drive on format

[John Summerfield]

Will Woods wrote:
> 
> On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:21 AM, cloneu2 wrote:
>> I have tried over the last week or so to install f9 with a network 
>> install.  Everything goes fine until it is time to format the drive. 
>> It will start and then at about 15% complete the system just locks.  I 
>> have tried the text mode install and at that point the screen just 
>> fills with junk.  It is a sata320.  The only way I can fix the drive 
>> is to do a f9 beta install over the drive again.  I can't even use 
>> gparted (on another f9 install) to reformat the drive with ext3 
>> format.  It will format in fat32.
>> will the preview release, if it ever comes out, fix this problem?
> 
> Hard to say without actually knowing what the problem is.
> 
> What hardware are you using? sata controller, drive model/size? how old 
> is the drive?

Computer make and model?




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