"I used the Western Digital EZ-Drive utility to partition the disk.'

This may be your problem.  It writes to the a signature to the MBR.  Try
Fdisk and see if you can blow it away.

Doug

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Blevins" <dmblevins at mediaone.net>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 7:51 PM
Subject: [TCLUG] Crash while formatting home


> I've been cutting my sysadmin teeth for two days now.  I got my old P133
> back from a friend and decided to make one more attempt at putting Linux
at
> the center of my network.  I had RH 6.1 on the P133 at one time, but
> X-Windows ran really slowly.
>
> This time, I'm moving my Win2k Pro to the 133 freeing up a P 700 for good
> ol' Red Hat.
>
> I've got everything moved and changed, all the disk switched etc. and the
> Win2k box up and running.  Now I am installing Red Hat 7.1 and...
>
> It keeps crashing each time the installer gets to the formatting stage.
The
> very last thing I see is 'Formatting /home filesystem', then it just
hangs.
>
> Info:
> Doing a 'Server' install.
> Taking all the package groups.
> I have a new 20 gig hard disk that I prepared with one large Fat32
> partition.  I tried to install when the disk was fresh but got an error
> early on in the install process saying 'No partitions to install on' or
> something.
> I used the Western Digital EZ-Drive utility to partition the disk.
>
>
> Any ideas on how to get through or around this?
>
>
> David
>
>
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