"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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list