Pixel wrote:
> Steve Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I could not help but notice that Hydrogen 7.1b has problems formatting the swap
>partition
> > during the installation. Even using the "auto-allocate" option in diskdrake or
>selecting
> > "automated" install, I get a message "Swap partition must be." The actual message
>reported
> > on screen 3 (or whatever) is "Swap partition must be at least 40kb." This only
>occurs when
> > an extended partition is used. If I manually allocate using only primary
>partitions,
> > everything is fine.
>
> this is quite strange. can you tell more?
Well, I had the same problem with the first beta. I am doing an http installation on
a fresh
4GB (older) drive set up as LBA. If I autoallocate letting it use an extended
partition, then
I get the error. If I manually 'mknod hda? b 3 ?; mkswap hda?' I get the error (which
comes
from a perl script). Even though I can see the the swap partition is 243MB. If I
partition so
that all the partitions are primary there is not a problem.
Since this happens even using the most automated install on a clean disk, I'm baffled
as to why
more people are not seeing this.
My machine is a 400MHZ K6-3 w/128MB and using the onboard VIA ide controller.
It seems that something about mkswap does not like extended partitions, or at least
partitions
with numbers of 5 or over.
-Steve
