On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 06:04:30PM -0400, Owen B. Mehegan wrote: > Aha. My disk is 4.3G, and I just made one large root partition for it. > That must be the problem. > > I normally do make a small boot partition, but I had some problems when > I did this with the Sparc. For one thing, in the install fdisk I > couldn't find an option to toggle the bootable flag, which I normally do > for my boot partition. Does this not apply in the Debian Sparc install > or what? > > Also, after I got the drive partitioned when I tried creating a separate > partition for boot, I got a lot of errors about the system not knowing > where my root partition was supposed to be. Creating just one big > partition seemed to make that problem go away.
Create a 1gig root partition, and then separate the rest between /usr and /home. Alleviates a lot of the headache. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
