[Gloucs] Problem while installing Slackware 8.1

Guy Edwards gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk
Fri Jun 13 15:37:01 2003


On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 14:50, Alex Craddock wrote:
> Yeah, I'm pretty sure that my partitioning is correct because I ran cfdisk 
> and there are three partitions:
> hda1: FAT32: 49500MB or so, hda2: ext2: 10000MB or so, hda3: swap(w/e): 
> 500MB.  Linux native is set as default, then I typed setup and formatted 
> swap as swap drive and native as target install drive, I also set up linux 
> to recognise my fat32 drive.  Then I did install chose full and it took a 
> few seconds then it's over.  I don't know what's gone wrong frankly.

complete shot in the dark:-
what happens if you choose other install options (other than full), does it just 
bomb through on any install option? e.g. some weird bug in the installer maybe?

Guy