* Christian Biesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-18 19:08]: > The situation is: My Mainboard only supports either PIO, or harddisks > larger than 128 GB. d-i enabled dma. In windows, I had pio disabled and > created an extended partition, and I wanted to install debian into a > logical partition inside that one. Now, that extended partition crossed > that 128 GB boundary. > /sbin/fdisk didn't seem to mind much; cfdisk did (complained that > partition table was larger than disk), and I assume that is the reason > why d-i didn't show any partitions on this harddisk, even though a NTFS > partition did exist. imho it should have shown it.
How do you think should d-i cope with this? I think the best option for you would be to turn pio off in Linux if that's possible - I imagine there's a command line option for that. > That was the first problem. > The next problem was: At the end of the installation, d-i tried to > upgrade the system. Unfortunately console-common seems to have a problem > in testing, which caused an "error 9" when installing. I fixed this by > changing "testing" to "unstable" in /etc/apt/sources.list which I wanted This is a known problem which will hopefully get fixed soon. > Oh, and finally: The installer didn't seem to recognize my win2k > installation on the NTFS partition. but I see that you listed this on > the errata page, and have fixed it already. Yes. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
