On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Alexander Koch wrote: > [...]
> 3. On the boot discs there were only /dev/sdb1 to /dev/sdb8, both 9 and 10 > were missing. Well, it's not difficult to have 10 partitions if you a) only > use two primary, one to be an extended partition with the rest being logical > ones and b) if you're lucky and have a 4g hd. I had to mknod them and seem > to have forgotten to do it on /target/dev/, too, what was further annoying. I reported this problem on 27 Jan when I got stuck trying to install from Debian 1.2. (This was on sda, but sdb was the same.) Strangely, Debian 1.1 had 16 partitions which is why I didn't get hit before. I don't think 1.2 had any ram disk devices either, so I couldn't rdev the root device on my custom boot/root disk at home (1.2) but only at work (originally 1.1). Looking at 1.3 of 4 Apr, it seems to have one ok (/dev/ramdisk0). So please, more SCSI partitions. Disks are getting bigger, and some of us need to run multiple OSes. And please don't say "you should have more disks, not partitions"; that's a decision made by our purchasing dept, not me. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
