[NCLUG] KRUD install

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 04:22:49PM -0600, William Dan Terry wrote:
>I'm trying to install KRUD on an HP Kayak XA. I get to the point where
>it is formatting the HD. Just at the end (not sure if it completed or if
>the error is just before completing the format), I get "An error occured
>when trying to create /dev/pts: Input/output error. This is a fatal

Have you tried checking what's on the other virtual consoles (F2 through F5
or so)?  Ctl-Alt-F2, if you are in the X display, Alt-F2 otherwise.

Another thing you might want to try doing is running a full badblocks on
the drive.  At the boot prompt do "linux rescue", then tell it not to mount
your drives.  It'll give you a prompt, then do:

   cd /
   mknod hda        (assuming the drive is on /dev/hda)
   badblocks -svw hda

This will wipe the drive and test it for errors.

Sean
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