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- From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Installation
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.210828.416@colorado.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 21:08:28 GMT
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- In article <Fu2ioB2w165w@bluemoon.rn.com> cmb@bluemoon.rn.com (Chris Bugosh) writes:
- >(First off, I hope this isn't in one of the FAQ's that I DIDN'T get,
- >but...)
- >
- >I am trying to install Linux but every time I try it trips and stalls on
- >a bad block. In one of the installation text files that I have, it
- >mentions making Linux the first partition... Did this and got the same
- >thing. Can anyone help in this area? Thanks.
- >
-
- When you install Linux, you want to make all of your filesystems
- with mkfs -c. "-c" tells mkfs to check for the bad blocks, which
- are placed into /.badblocks so they can't be allocated for a
- normal file.
-
- As far as installing Linux on the first partition : any partition
- works.
-