Not sure what your problem is but I suggest you enter the SCSI BIOS at boot-up and carry out a complete low-level format of the disk from there (and verification / re-mapping of faulty sectors) if you have the time. Then re-try your installation.
BTW, I always do this before a new installation in case any new bad sectors have turned up.
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-----Original Message----- Message: 2 From: jamie.french@talk21.com To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:53:26 GMT+00:00 Subject: [Alug] RH 7.3 Install
Hi Guys,
After downloading RH7.3 and conducted a linux mediacheck when at partitioning stage I receive the following error "Partition table on device sda was unreadable. Initialize this drive Yes/No." By selecting Yes the following error occured "no valid devices were found to create new filesystems". Thus the system kills sessions and reboots.
By checking system messages (ctrl+alt+F4) at various points I can determine that the SCSI card and devices where detected.
Though after receiving the final error messege the following system message appears a number of time "parity error detected in data-in phase".
Please bear in mind this machine has been running SuSe without any difficulties.
Machine Spec:
Supermicro P6SBU 196MB Onboard AIC-7890 SCSI ULTRA2/LVD Seagate 9GB LVD
Any help would be great as I am trying to learn this sh*t.
Take Care,
Jamie
Best Regards,
Jamie French
Hi Andrew,
The disk is in fine working order without bad sectors, it seemed to of been more of a RH module problem, though interestingly and annoyingly today I attempted the install again which success was gained, annoyingly because I don't know what the problem was.
I must say that RH 7.3 is impressive and with sampling Gnome, which is really nice, it is certainly a vast performance increase on the same machine which previously housed SuSe and KDE! Gnome seems to me quite slick with some nice default features.
Anyway, thanks for your time.
Jamie
Stowmarket :(
-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Andrew Wallis Sent: 04 December 2002 13:00 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: RE: [Alug] RH 7.3 Install
Not sure what your problem is but I suggest you enter the SCSI BIOS at boot-up and carry out a complete low-level format of the disk from there (and verification / re-mapping of faulty sectors) if you have the time. Then re-try your installation.
BTW, I always do this before a new installation in case any new bad sectors have turned up.
Regards
Andrew Wallis Fox Cottage Fox Hill St Cross South Elmham HARLESTON IP20 0NX UK
phone: +44 (0) 1986 782283 mobile: +44 (0) 7860 217025 SMS via email: mailto:+447860217025@mmail.co.uk
-----Original Message----- Message: 2 From: jamie.french@talk21.com To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:53:26 GMT+00:00 Subject: [Alug] RH 7.3 Install
Hi Guys,
After downloading RH7.3 and conducted a linux mediacheck when at partitioning stage I receive the following error "Partition table on device sda was unreadable. Initialize this drive Yes/No." By selecting Yes the following error occured "no valid devices were found to create new filesystems". Thus the system kills sessions and reboots.
By checking system messages (ctrl+alt+F4) at various points I can determine that the SCSI card and devices where detected.
Though after receiving the final error messege the following system message appears a number of time "parity error detected in data-in phase".
Please bear in mind this machine has been running SuSe without any difficulties.
Machine Spec:
Supermicro P6SBU 196MB Onboard AIC-7890 SCSI ULTRA2/LVD Seagate 9GB LVD
Any help would be great as I am trying to learn this sh*t.
Take Care,
Jamie
Best Regards,
Jamie French
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Jamie French jamie.french@talk21.com wrote:
[...] Gnome seems to me quite slick with some nice default features.
Don't worry, Gnome 2 seems to be fixing that. ;-)
MJR
Oh right, that good then. It certainly is quicker for me at present.
Take Care,
J
-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of MJ Ray Sent: 04 December 2002 20:13 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] RH 7.3 Install
Jamie French jamie.french@talk21.com wrote:
[...] Gnome seems to me quite slick with some nice default features.
Don't worry, Gnome 2 seems to be fixing that. ;-)
MJR
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[snip]
I must say that RH 7.3 is impressive and with sampling Gnome, which is really nice, it is certainly a vast performance increase on the same machine which previously housed SuSe and KDE! Gnome seems to me quite slick with some nice default features.
Anyway, thanks for your time.
Jamie
Stowmarket :(
I get confused by these speed differences between distro's.
I have one SuSE machine here (1Ghz AMD) and one at a clients (PIII 500) and both of those are snappy machines, random Linux users have walked up to the work machine and asked how I got it so responsive (some of those people are sitting on machines with twice the clock speed)
Also I always thought that if anything KDE was slightly more responsive than Gnome.
Unneeded service installations aside, should there really be that much difference between different distributions anyway. I know some complie their packages with Pentium optimisations and others not, but no-one really does any heavy optimisation on the kernel do they ?
Or is it just things like default themes that are making all the difference ?
Hi Dennis
Just to add to comments made else where - Whilst you'd think there isn't much to choose from between various distros, there are several subtle variations..
Red Hat often use bleeding edge sources and leave the end user to do the bleeding. The compiler shipped with 7.x series (labelled as 2.96, even though the GCC group never released one), is one best avoided. Having just done a RH8.0 install, I find a program compiled with gcc-3.2 produces an serious error when an attempt is made to execute it - Unresolved symbol __dso_handle errors are well documented, yet RH appears to have included the "bug". Mandrake follow in the footsteps of RH, so most problems are likely in their offering.
SuSE tend to be a little more conservative in their choice of stable or beta sources - I've found the installs I've done with SuSE to be reasonably stable.
Debian - If you want stable and reliable packages, this would be the one to go for IF you can get to grips with the apt-wot-nots. You do at least, get the choice of installing stable or unstable packages (unlike RH).
For optimised installs, you can't go far wrong with Linux From Scratch or Gentoo - Both involve a fair bit of work on your part, and probably not suited to the newbie.
There are a number of other distros available - Conectiva, Caldera, Slackware, jsut do a quick search and you'll get hundreds. One I fancy trying is the Beowolf distro (if only I had enough machines to make it worthwhile).
Regards, Paul.
On Wednesday 04 Dec 2002 9:11 pm, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Unneeded service installations aside, should there really be that much difference between different distributions anyway.
Gnome seems to me quite slick with some nice default features.
Gnome2 is even an improvement on that- faster, more stable (it seems) and less fiddly. And with Anti-Aliased fonts as default (might depend on distro). Gotta love it!
Of course for speed you might want to try a window manager only- i.e. blackbox/fluxbox, windowmaker etc. Blackbox being my current favourite on my laptop!
Ricardo Campos ricardo@corez23.com wrote:
Gnome seems to me quite slick with some nice default features.
Gnome2 is even an improvement on that- faster, more stable (it seems) and less fiddly.
Seemed slower, more stable and more fiddly (due to some UI goofs) to me, so I guess it depends what you thought of Gnome 1. ;-)
[...] And with Anti-Aliased fonts as default (might depend on distro). Gotta love it!
Anti-aliased fonts are one of the things that is finally being put right. I see from releases that the next RedHat will be UTF-8 throughout by default (instead of Latin-1), similar to if you pick en_GB.utf-8 when installing Debian, so that's the other big problem being put right... expect a font revolution as people get them antialiased and multilingual!
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