[QCLUG] Newbie having installation errors

[Noah Norris]

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but usually this happens on old hardware with big drives.

try looking for the drive configuration under the bios and list its settings
there might be settings for lba and such

also look for the sata / ata /pata configuration if theres any someimes this
is to set a sata drive into native or compatable mode.

actully this reminds me of a corrupt partition table whch could be caused by
the way dell set it up or vista. ( sometimes these problems can be a pain)
dell diag partition or there media fast boot partition. (alothough less
likely cause you tried a full install)

if you open a terminal and run dmesg after it errors out is there any other
information might be helpfull to have a full dmesg output cause it also
lists some information about the drives and all hardware as linux boots. (
sometimes errors and other wierd issues are here ) this is alot of output
from dmesg so the best way to do it would be fully boot the live cd and do
the install while you have access to webmail of some type and copy and past
from a terminal to webmail

dell laptops can be picky about cdrom's / dvd used  if you used a dvd try a
bootable cd (also your dvd came out of a magizine might of had an problem
with it also might of been customed from the normal cd's not sure but maybe
a different kernel etc etc also try one version behind )

one other note is does vista default to a fast format for installs or this a
dell retsore cd?

dmesg is a great tool to troble shoot problems


On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Steve Langasek <vorlon@dodds.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:29:43PM -0600, Luis Gonzalez wrote:
> > This is the specs for the laptop below
>
> > Dell Inspiron 1525
> > 160GB TOSHIBA MK1637GSX ATA DEVICE
> >  INTEL(R) PENTIUM(R) DUAL CPU T2330 @1.60GHZ
> > RAM: 2038MB
> > 32 bit Operating System
> > Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:36:47PM -0600, Luis Gonzalez wrote:
> > Erro Message:
> > Failed to create a file system
> > The ext3 file system creation in partition #5 of SCSI1 (0.0.0) (sda)
> failed.
>
> The most likely cause here is that the kernel knows the size of the disk,
> but is using an incompatible method to access it that prevents accessing
> anything past 137GB.  This may be the result of a BIOS setting.
>
> --
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