Hi, all. I am just using a Sarge install disk, to do a fresh install. I was unable to partition most of one of my disks. I have found a simple work around.
I was unable to manually partition the 2.1Gb disk, beyond about 196 megs. Having _slept_ on it, I decided to do a fresh install of Sarge this morning, but when setting-up the partitions, I have let Debian automagically set-up my partitions, using a _multiple-user_ option (then I get separate /home, /var, etc). The partitioning worked, and my install is happening, as type. This looks like a result to me! Cheers, Chris. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martin Habets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 18-Jul-2007 23:15 Subject: Re: Can't use all of my disk in my SS20. To: Chris Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-sparc <[email protected]> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:13:56PM +0100, Chris Andrew wrote:
Hi, all. I have succesfully installed Etch on my SS20. I have 2 harddrives, both 2.1Gb. The first HDD will only let me use 200 megs of it. I have tried all sorts of formatting, but it just won't let me touch most of the drive. When I
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fdisk /dev/sdb, it just shows the two partitions that I have created, plus the Sun "whole disk" partition. I still can't do anything with almost 2 gigs of HDD. Can anyone tell me how I can get around this?
I ran into this when I used parted to partition the disk. Could not complete the install as a result. Got around it by using good ol' fdisk in stead. Mind you, it only happened on 1 machine out of 5. I think all the others had bigger disks. -- Martin
