On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 09:22:52AM -0400, Brian Gregor wrote: > > I just tried installing on my Redhat 5.2 system, and I am > having troubles... > > While trying to use the cross-install script, I got the > following error: > dpkg-hurd: [ too many arguments > or something similar - this was previously mentioned on the > mailing list a week or two ago. I have dpkg installed and it > appears to work fine. > > So, I went to use the tarball - gnu-19990505.tar.gz, which > installed fine on my new Hurd partition. I did use > mke2fs -o hurd /dev/hda3 to make the partition. > > When booting, I got the following error: > Partition check: > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 > > hdd: PTBL [621/64/63] hdd1 > hda4: bad access: block=28, count=2 > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04, sector 28 > (serverboot): Running without any paging > /hurd/ext2fs.static: cannot vm_map whole disk: (os/kern) > no space available > > The computer is an AMD K6 200 MHz with 128 meg of RAM. The > first disk (hda) is 6.8 gig, with the following partition > scheme: > hda1: ext2fs, my main linux / partition, about 100 meg > hda2: fat32, win95 boot partition, about 200 meg > hda3: ext2fs, now the hurd, about 2.5 gig (has in the > past contained Solaris and FreeBSD with no prob.) > hda4: extended > hda5: 128 meg swap > hda6: ext2fs, the rest of my redhat installation filling > the rest of the disk > hdc: CD-ROM > hdd1: 1.2 gig, all windoze.
I do beleive that the hurd still does not support partitions greater than 1G (was it ?). I might not have noticed them fix it though, but I think that's the problem you are running into. Ian
