[jan-jaap]

Hi,

Several of your screen shots show 'media errors'. This usually means the disk has bad sectors or other physical problems. I can think of one exceptions and that would be a disk low-level formatted for something other than 512 bytes per sector. Sometimes hard disks from large (SAN) storage systems are low level formatted with a sector size slightly larger than 512 bytes/sector, e.g. 520. But these are usually Fibre Channel disks.

To check the sanity of your disk from 'fx', you can erase it. Form the 'fx' prompt, choose /exercise, /sequential, / wr-only and when prompted for a range select 0 as the start and whatever big number it suggests as end. This will write over the entire disk with zeros which can take a long time depending on how big the disk is. It will attempt to map out bad sectors if it encounters them. If there are more than a few I would throw it away because otherwise you will spend a lot of time installing the OS and by the time you're done it will develop more bad sectors and all will be for nothing.

After successfully wiping the disk you need to create a disk label in fx before you exit this program. From the partition menu choose [ro] for 'root' drive, accept the defaults, write out the disk label and exit the program. NB: a disk label is what you'd call a partition table in a PC.

With that done, you can reset the system, and when the [1] ... [5] menu shows, choose the option to install system software.

On the topic of the O2: *NEVER* pull the system tray out of the system while the power cord is plugged in. There's a big risk of killing the whole system.

Good luck!