[Jimmmac1]

Good morning

I have been having some strange occurences with RedHat 9 and decided to do a reinstall. So I start, and ask it to format the partitions and check for bad blocks. I have /dev/hdd1 for / and /dev/hdd7 for /usr. When it finished /dev/hdd7, it said there were bad blocks, stopped the installation and rebooted. I tried starting up Knoppix, ran fsck -a on /dev/hdd7, which finished. I then restarted the install and did the same thing. Got the same message and it stopped the format and install. I would figure fsck -a would with either fix the bad blocks or mark them and then I could re-install and everything would be fine. But this didn't happen. I am not sure about skipping the check for bad blocks and just formatting, because the install could produce more problems than I currently have. Question is, how do I fix the bad blocks so RedHat 9 will install? Thanks in advance for the help

Jim Macdonald

[Berre]