by HELP!!! I can't get linux to format my swap partiton, or any other part
of my hard drive for that matter.
First of all, I don't really have an Adaptec 2940, but I have the
aic7850 chipset built onto my motherboard, which is the chipset used in
the 2940.
I'm trying to install Redhat 2.0, and I'm using the boot disk that they
provide for the 2940. I boot with the lilo line "linux
aic7xxx=extended". It detects everything just fine- it sees my hard
disk (Quantum Fireball 1080S or some such thing...) and it will
partition my hard drive just fine. This is what I did: first I used
fips to split my existing dos partition into three partitions (720MB,
16MB, and 300MB or so). Then I used the linux fdisk to change the
system type of the two partitions I created from extended dos to linux
swap for the 16MB and linux native the 300MB partition. But it refuses
to format the 16MB partition!!!! The computer freezes up completely
every time!!!!
Is there something I'm missing? Is the driver just not very stable?
What is it?
Thanks in advance,
John
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