[olug] Progeny is a virus . . . . . ?!?

[Matt N]

One thing that comes to my mind is that.. possibly the issue could be that the installation is not finding a compatable file format to install on, ie ext2. Using standard fdisk... it is going to set up various partitions on the system.. mainly DOS related. From that point the end user still has to set up a partition using ext2 as the main file system. What I would also be curious about is if something is wrong with the Master Boot Record or the FAT tables.

What are some other ideas?



-----Original Message-----
From:    Hungate Jim Hungate_Jim at prc.com
Sent:    Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:56:37 -0400
To:      olug at bstc.net
Subject: [olug] Progeny is a virus . . . . . ?!?


  I've tried several Linux disros on  my system. The latest has been
Mandrake 8.0. Last night I decided to try Progeny (One of the guys here at
work is a big Debian fan). When the install reached the point where I was
going to set up partitions, I received an error message stating that the
install couldn't find my partition table and asking if I would like to
create a new one. I obviously said no, cancelled the install, and rebooted
the system. Unfortunately, now my partition table WAS gone. (Good thing that
I backup my system regularly). I used fdisk to recreate all of my parttions,
formatted the partitions and attempted the install again and got the same
results. Once again my partition table is gone.
  I've never seen anything like this. I attempted on an older system too,
and got the same results.
  Has anyone else run across a problem like this?

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