Re: Installation Problems

Srdjan Todorovic <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.slackware
Message-ID <CAJRitXBoAbF5yHuq9KkA_1cd4JPK-1z1zL1q0gRpmcjOu9do=g@mail.gmail.com>
On 21 February 2012 22:24, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
wrote:> On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Rich Shepard wrote:

>  Rerunning cfdisk I specify a slow format to check for bad sectors on sda1
> and specify ext3 as the fs. The installation process immediately returns me
> to the setup for the next partition. There's no way such a large partition
> could be formatted that quickly.

Did you read Claudio's reply to your email?

Better to check that you have not confused 300MB with 300GB.

You could always boot a *buntu live CD and verify partition sizes with
fdisk -l, and even format them from the live CD so you dont have to
format them in Slackware's installer.

Regards,
Srdjan

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