hd install went haywire

[Stephen]

Hi,

Thanks. BTW, I couldn't have done it without you.

I could'nt tell what was missing in the install, at 40% in the script I was getting input/output errors, but the script recovered and completed. I like the auto recovery feature. So if something was corrupted, the install did not live long enough for me to discover what that was.

I reinstalled again, this time I've set up hda1 as 500 MB swap, hda2 4500 MB reiser, and hda3 1500 MB reiser, but running CFDISK, I noticed that hda2 is not reiserFS at all, it went in as ext2. This time I did not have to edit of configure LILO, it did write itself to MBR during script install. But I am dumbfounded that hda2 is not reiserFS. I opted for that specifically because the hd is defective. I'm not sure how that happened, but I used console and the commands that I learned "mkreiserfs /hda2" and "mkreiserfs /hda3", but I must have goofed running cfdisk when seperating out 1500 MB partition. At the moment everything works great, save a minor glitch with /etc/resolv.conf which I don't understand yet. I've never had to edit it manually before, and I've discovered it had a sym link to /etc/dhcpc/resolv.conf, and I followed exactly the same steps.

Regards,

Joseph Schiller

cfdisk set the partition as a linux partition which IIRC is set by default to ext2 you just had to use the type option to set it as reiser. Any time I have installed I usually use cfdisk and format the partitions before I run the script and just quit from cfdisk when it comes up and continue with the script.

I think your resolv.conf problems have something to do with the groups your user belongs too I have responded to your other post although it could be one of those annoying things that get changed when you install and you have to configure the settings manually.