Re: BDI 2.18 install problem

[Ray Henry <rehenry-at-up.net>]

John

This fired a few stale connections in my head.  There are a couple of others 
out of two or three hundred who have had hard drive problems during an 
install.  It seems that the default install formats and does some meager 
verify but does not really get down and check the hard drive for bad blocks.  
I believe that in these cases, you'd have to specify a manual partition and 
tick the box that says check for bad blocks.

Ray



On Wednesday 16 April 2003 08:12 am, you wrote:
> Don Lemke wrote:
> > I had a Red Hat 8.0 box set distribution do that on a 100 MHz P1.
>
> Thanks Don.  Actually I fixed it on Sunday, the problem was a dying hard
> disk.
> The weird thing is that I never got an error message about read errors or
> anything, it just corrupted the data.  Replaced the HD and everything
> works.
>
> I posted a message about solving the problem on Sunday, but I don't
> think it came through - at least I never saw it on the list...
>
> Matt, Paul - I sent each of you an email the same time, and I haven't heard
> from either of you - did those messages get lost too?
>
> John Kasunich