by > I recently bought a IBM deskstar 3.24 GB EIDE drive, and I have having
> trouble to make it work with Linux.
> I tried to install RedHat 4.0 on it, and randomly some packages will fail
> to install during the installations with no reason.
you do have the space in the filesystem you're installing to, I'd
suggest installing the whole thing and removing packages (with rpm -e)
later: the installer doesn't check dependencies, but rpm (and therefore
glint) will do so if you try to add packages after the initial install.
Using rpm itself, rather than 4.0's glint, will give you appropriate
error messages rather than silent failure.
Never used debian.Quote:> I tried to install Debian, everything went okay, except when boot from the
> floppy in the last step of the installation, the machine just hanged.
I assume everything's stable under your existing Linux setup? NoQuote:> The configuration of my machine is: IBM 686 200+, 64 MB RAM, M-Tech
> Mustang MB.
mysterious gcc crashes?
You might try putting the IBM on the other IDE channel.Quote:> I set the IBM to be a slave to my existing 420 Seagate on the first IDE
> channel.
The "62 unallocated sectors" warning is a nuisance, nothing more; itQuote:> Out of desperation, I booted my existing Slackware 96 (on my Seagate),
> fdisk'ed the Deskstar, mke2fs'ed it, and mounted it to a /temp directory.
> I copied some file to /temp, everything went okay. But if I reboot, I will
> see complaints about inconsistent inode and stuff like that, I see tons of
> errors corrected if I run fsck. But even after the error correction,
> fdisk, v, will show a mysterous "62 unallocated sectors" error.
basically says you gave the whole first track over to the partition
table and MBR, which only take up two sectors...and afaik you'd have to
go into the "dangerous features" menu to *not* leave 62 unallocated
sectors.
Does your shutdown and reboot setup properly unmount the partitions on
the IBM? If you shutdown properly and reboot, if you were to fsck the
IBM before mounting it again you should get "/dev/hdbwhatever clean,
check skipped" or something like that. If, on the other hand, the IBM's
fs isn't getting synced or unmounted, you will of course get problems.
Keith
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