Re: [COMP] Redhat 6.0 install error msg

> Don't have any disks (if your talking about floppies)

You can make those from the disk images, which you can get from Redhat, or off
the CD.

> Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the cpu is overclocked. Its an intel pent 120,
> thats been oc'ed to 133. I upped the fsb speed from 60 to 66.
> The mulitplier is still at 2x
> the mobo manufacturer went out of business and I can not get either a mobo
> manual or bios upgrade.(well, its an award bios so I could pay unicore $60
> for one- but I could get another mobo for that price)

Overclocking *could* cause problems, and is generally a bad thing, but it
shouldn't do this, so I wouldn't bet on this being the problem (esp if you
hadn't any previous system instability).

> This WD did have some bad blocks on it that went away when I formatted with
> the /u switch.
> I used DiskDruid rather than linux fdisk.
> Now MS fdisk wont remove the partitons, I did use Disk Druid to *remove*
> those partitons but 98boot disk and Dos6.22 boot disk versions of fdisk still
> show em.
> the wierd thing is MS fdisk says *cant remove an extended partition when a
> primary one exists* and *cant remove a Primary partition when an extended one
> exists*

You can't remove an extended partition until you remove the logical drives, and
you can't remove a primary partition until you remove the extended.  Anyway,
linux fdisk, I believe, can do all of the above.  MS's seems crippled, or just
not aware of the possibilities.

Anyway, if you've re-created the partitions and you still get that panic, I'd
say you've got bad hardware.  The fact alone that you had bad sectors means that
the drive is (probably) on its way out, and is up for a warranty replacement
from Western Dig.  If those sectors went away, that's actually a bad thing,
since the filesystem will now try to write data to them. :)

John




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