Hello, I just purchased the 6.1 boxed set, and noticed a problem with the installation in text mode. I chose to do a low level format of my partitions, but it didn't seem to take place. I pretty sure of this, because the format step went by very fast, and the installer later crashed and burned after writing about 300 Megs. I know that my disk contains bad blocks, because I got the same sort of installer crash with 4.2 until I did a low level format. In the mean time, I'm reinstalling a min 4.2 system with a low level format, which I will then try to upgrade to 6.1 Rick Geimer
Send me more details about the partitions on your system. I have no trouble with the installations I run here in the office. Selecting to check for bad blocks always causes the 'mke2fs -c' command to run. Send your partition table and I will replicate here in the lab and see if I can get the same results.