Need help installing!

**Le0** · 10-08-2004, 07:35 PM

I have knoppix 3.6 on disc and am trying to install it, i will go through the steps i take to install it...

1. boot knoppix fro, disc using failsafe (gets stuck otherwise)
2. ctrl alt f1
3. cfdisk
4. 2 partitions (3.5gig and .5gig), write, exit
5. reboot
6. mkswap dev/hda2/
7. knopix-installer do config
8. install
9. error i get:

Error forrmatting of failed. Some messages from mkfs.ext3...

How do I get past this error?

**UnderScore** · 10-08-2004, 10:25 PM

Try making the hda1 filesystem by hand
For a ext2 partition

Code:

mke2fs -v /dev/hda1

For a ext3 partition

Code:

mke2fs -vj /dev/hda1

**Le0** · 10-09-2004, 05:54 PM

Makes no odds same thing happens, could it something to do with it being read only or something? What is the difference between ext3 and 2? Any way of skipping the format part of the installation, or manual install?

**firebyrd10** · 10-09-2004, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by Le0

Makes no odds same thing happens, could it something to do with it being read only or something? What is the difference between ext3 and 2? Any way of skipping the format part of the installation, or manual install?

Ext3 is really just ext2 with a file journal.