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- From: ron@argus.lpl.Arizona.EDU (Ron Watkins)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: mkefs not working.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.134104.7925@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 13:41:04 GMT
- Sender: news@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu
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- Organization: Lunar and Planetary Lab, U of AZ
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- I just picked up 0.98pl5 from tsx-11 and I used fdisk to create the
- following partitions (actually DOS fdisk created 1,2 and 5):
-
- /dev/hda 12 heads 35 sectors 989 cyl.
- device boot begin start end blocks id system
- 1 * 1 1 25 5232+ 1 DOS 12-bit FAT
- 2 26 26 172 30870 5 Extended
- 3 173 173 251 16590 82 Linux swap
- 4 252 252 989 154980 83 Linux extfs
- 5 26 26 172 32852+ 4 Dos 16-bit FAT
-
- The problem is that when I tried to use mkefs:
- # mkefs /dev/hda4 154980
- I get error messages "out of memory" and "killed". I have 4M RAM (if relevant).
- When I tried to use doinstall it said that I should run mkfs again.
- Also during this whole process, I keep getting floppy errors, write protected
- and I/O errors from the floppy. I thought this could be ignored because the
- instructions specifically state to "write protect or die".
- Any ideas or help would be appreciated.
-