Re: ?? writing

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:55:52 -0700 (PDT)
ec <eculbert@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Recently, I have been unable to write to the hd at
> all!! I can 'install' an os, but then it wont do
> anything. This has been going on for a couple weeks
> and is driving me crazy.
>
> I cannot get the box to the installfest as it is a
> tower and I have to take the bus.
>
> I have 'formatted' and tried all three formats,
> ext2,3,riser!!! Still looks good on the install, but
> then nothing when I try to start up the install, just
> hangs!!!
>
> I have 3 partitions and one swap.
>
> I am on knoppix right now, which doesn't need a hd to
> run, just ramdisk and cdrom. Knoppix cannot write a
> Kwrite txt to any partition..
>
> I have been using the slackware 10 cd's 1 and 2.
>
> Hum. Never had any problem till lately.

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Well, if you can format, partition and install an OS, you've demonstrated that you certainly CAN write to the HDD.

Post your /etc/fstab and the output of "df -h".

Slackware doesn't do any automatic partitioning. Is it possibe that you made a partition too small?

dennisk
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