Sounds like you might have a bad disk there Sean,
though it's something I've done rarely and could
be wrong about. Have a try creating a filesystem
on the disk from a live boot, use mkfs, try a
few types like ext2 and ext3. Also try moving
the disk to aniother IDE or ATA port and see what happens.
Run fdisk on it and see what the partition table looks like.

You might find some clues here
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/filesystems.html

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:29:22 -0400
sean <sean@???> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I keep having trouble creating a nest... I've been experimenting with
> Dynebolic2 on a system I can keep erasing/reformatting, so I've tried a
> variety of configurations for setup and had the same problem pretty
> consistently. The nest creation begins and fails while writing the inode
> tables; usually about halfway. There seems to be no way to kill the
> process, either.
>
>
> -sean
>
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