On Tuesday 31 January 2006 00:30, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Monday 30 January 2006 16:20, Martin Soltau wrote: snip
SUSE kind of problem?
Hi Martin,
I learned a very long time ago to:
- low level format - partition - high level (filesystem) format - activate - install
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I can't explain the precise mechanics of it, but my guess is there is still an assumption built somewhere into the underlying software that the installation is occurring on a new (empty) or properly "low level" formatted drive.
regards,
- Carl
I may be getting this wrong but I recall something from years gone back when a 40 meg hard drive has as big as you could get for a home pc. In those days, I think they said then, that you weren't suppose to low level reformat a drive once it had been done. I could be mistaken, years of memory eroding away, or is it a case that it's ok to do that nowadays. If so, how do you do a low level format? It used to be an option in the bios all those years ago but I've not seen it for nearly 20 years. Peter C