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- From: sailor@cellar.org (Rick Emerson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Installation
- Message-ID: <3yNooB2w164w@cellar.org>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 17:05:01 GMT
- References: <Fu2ioB2w165w@bluemoon.rn.com>
- Sender: bbs@cellar.org (The Cellar BBS)
- Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system
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- 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.
- >
-
- Do mkfs -c [/dev/hdxx] [size] and the -c will check the partition. At the
- end it writes .badblocks. The mcc-interim installation removes this file
- (or did previously). Try the mcc-interim version on sc.tamu.edu which
- doesn't do this.
-
- Owen: has this "feature" been removed?
-
- Rick
-
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