[ale] suse won't install

[Jim]

On Friday 31 January 2003 10:21 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > Bad hard drive. It just hit the damaged sector and can't go further.
>
> I don't know, as I noted, I had a similar problem, replaced the cdrom
> and installed just fine.
>
> Boot the box with tom's root/boot and format the drive with '-c' option
> to see if you get any errors reported.

Another option is to run:

e2fsck -c -y

This will flag bad sectors so that they don't get used. Sometimes a very tiny 
bad spot will cause an installation to fail, but it doesn't mean the hard 
drive is unusable.
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