Re: Problems installing Debian

[John L. <lor...@uk...>]

Hi there

On 23-Feb-02, Bartosz Soko=B3owski wrote:

> I have problem installing Debian on my system. I have Debian on a CD
> (quite old version from 1999) which I had installed on my Amiga before
> my old HD crashed. Now I have PowerFlyer from Elbox and 30GB HD. When
> I try to install Debian at the point I want to use "mke2fs -c
> /dev/hda4 /mnt/root" I get a message:

> mke2fs 1.12, 9-Jul-98 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> mke2fs: bad blocks count - /mnt/root

> Can anyone tell me whats wrong?

I have a Power Flyer and know that they are not supported in Linux,
(Elbox won't release details IIRC), so I have to use 'noscsi' in the
command line when launching. So don't know if that will correct it for
you? Good luck.

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