From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: Installation Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:08:28 GMT
In article <Fu2ioB2w165w@bluemoon.rn.com> cmb@bluemoon.rn.com (Chris Bugosh) writes:
>(First off, I hope this isn't in one of the FAQ's that I DIDN'T get,
>but...)
>
>I am trying to install Linux but every time I try it trips and stalls on
>a bad block. In one of the installation text files that I have, it
>mentions making Linux the first partition... Did this and got the same
>thing. Can anyone help in this area? Thanks.
>
When you install Linux, you want to make all of your filesystems
with mkfs -c. "-c" tells mkfs to check for the bad blocks, which
are placed into /.badblocks so they can't be allocated for a
normal file.
As far as installing Linux on the first partition : any partition
works.