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Posted: Aug. 12 2006,09:59 QUOTE
I don't think your hard drive is partitioned properly maybe.

use fdisk / cfdisk to check them, and create/modify as necessary.
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Posted: Aug. 14 2006,18:16 QUOTE
Thanks. I have tried partitioning 3 ways:

- just one linux partition
- one main linux partition, small swap
- small boot partition for DSL, main partition, small swap

I get the same error messages regardless, so I'm not sure this is the cause of the problem. But in case it might be, can you tell me precisely how they should be partitioned?
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Posted: Aug. 14 2006,22:49 QUOTE
Did you check that partition was hda1?
maybe you should try manually formatting it to ext2 first.
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Posted: Aug. 15 2006,00:04 QUOTE
Try mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1

or whatever partition it is that you want to install DSL to.

-Matthew
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Posted: Aug. 23 2006,06:37 QUOTE
I am having almost identical problems during my install (see my message in the HD-Install forum).  I am working from a laptop, P120 16MB RAM and much less hard drive space (but more than 200 in my install partition).  I am working from a dsl boot floppy.

Thanks for any suggestions anyone can offer, and I will post here if and when I find a solution.
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