64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE

[Karl F. Larsen]

Rod James Bio wrote:
> We've been doing an installation on this LTSP Server we are trying to 
> build. Somehow in while formatting the 500 GB HD the partitioning 
> process is stock in 33%. Can anyone suggest if there are limitations or 
> problems?
>   
    There should be no limitation to the so-called formating. Please 
tell us which GUI software you are using. In a terminal you can use $ 
sudo mkfs.ext3 which should format the whole partition, or if not will 
produce an error message that might help :-)

73 karl




> Anyway just for additional information:
> We are using 64bit alternate ubuntu disc(we tried 8.04 to 9.04. Also 32 
> bit installation suceeded). We want to use 64bit since the machine has 
> 5GB of memory.
> Processor is Intel QUAD Q9550.
>
> --ROD
>
>   


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