[SOLVED] Booting into Debian for the first time

[sekellas]

Greetings all,

I decided to take an old Gateway that I bought off a guy cheaply and turn it into a file and web server.

I purchased copies of Debian 5.0.4 i386 disks (31 in all) on the advice of a friend, the disks weren't expensive, but now that Ive installed all the disks, I'm having a variety of errors

[443.110940 end request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 76021855
[443.111074] EXT3-fs error (device hde1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=2375715, block=9502724
INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/getty"

(There's a few of those...but it doesn't allow me time to see them all.)


INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/getty"
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

I'm brand new to Linux, can anyone give me advice what is going on and what I can do to clear some of this up?

Thanks,

Scott

By the way, it won't even let me reboot... I'm having to do hard shutdowns via the power cord, which I know isn't safe either. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[GNU-Fan]

Sounds like a broken harddrive to me. Did you check it for errors?

[sekellas]

Sounds like a broken harddrive to me. Did you check it for errors?

I did check the drive, with the ubunto installer, and decided to put ubuntu server 9.1 on and it worked immediately.

So I guess we can consider this closed