Hi, On my Sun/IPX I was trying to do a network install (by ftp) of RH6.2 and have failed to get past creating a root filesystem. It sat in mke2fs for more than an hour on a disc which is only 1GB in size (reducing the partition to 500MB didn't help). Looking at virtual console 5 you can see mke2fs running doing the 'writing inode table' stage and giving numbers like 1800/30xxx - ticking round at about 1 a second - so that would take more than 10 hours! IPX's are slow but not that slow! Looking at /proc/meminfo you can see that something is taking over 100MB of swap and growing as mke2fs was running. Dave
I now believe the problem is that Disk Druid incorrectly created the partition tables so that the partition sizes were about 1000 times their real sizes - which gave mke2fs a bit more work to do! Ode for old reliable fdisk.
What size did you enter for the partition in disk druid? It accepts partition sizes in units of Megabytes.
SPARC is no longer a supported platform.