[Nottingham] Knoppix install problem

Alex Tibbles alex_tibbles at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Nov 1 16:23:10 GMT 2004


> I have been trying to install Knoppix on the hard
> drive of my notebook computer and I get this
> message:
> 
> Error: Formatting of failed. Some messages from
> mkfs.ext3: Usage: mkfs.ext3 [-c:-t:-l filename] [-b
> block -size] [-fragment-size]
>  [-i bytes-per-inode] [-J journal-options] [-N
> number-of-inodes]

sounds like the device name is blank: "Formatting of
[] failed", then the usage information. What was the
device you selected for formatting? Could well just be
a bug in the installer?

alex


	
	
		
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