John Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you please spell it out for me. How do I want to lay out the disk? > > Its strange, I do have Mandrake 7.1 running on another disk (out of the > machine at this time) but I do not remember handling the disk > partitioning differently than I would on an Intel box.
In debian too this is pretty straightforward, I wonder what went wrong in your install... > Do I need to 'reconstruct' the disklable that I undoubtedly destroyed by > making my first partition start at 0? I will not be using any other OS > on this box. John T In *BSD you have a disklabel utility to create a new label from the bios/prom entry or from a file. I haven't seen one in the linux world, so if that's your problem, it looks you'll have to fdisk and reinstall.... Try this for the appropriate disk: -fdisk /dev/sdX -create a new empty sun disklabel (s) -create partitions 1 and 2 (e.q. / ,swap) -create partition 3 as Whole disk (this is more or less automatic IIRC) -create additional partitions -save and quit -reinstall debian Remember you cannot boot from a partition that exeeds 1 GB in size. Here's what our SS5 looks like from fdisk: js05:# fdisk /dev/sda Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 20 heads, 109 sectors, 3830 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2180 * 512 bytes Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 0 100 109000 83 Linux native /dev/sda2 u 100 160 65400 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 0 3830 4174700 5 Whole disk /dev/sda4 160 2083 2096070 83 Linux native /dev/sda5 2083 3830 1904230 83 Linux native HTH, -- Ragga
