On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 01:03:50PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > On 20/01/15 09:37 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >Greetings; > > > >I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 install on a disk with 4k sectors, this > >after researching and finding a partitioner utility that DOES know about > >4k/sector disks. That is gdisk. which found the gparted setup and fixed > >it, all I had to do was write it to the disk., gparted, an old version is > >not capable of aligning things correctly. > > > >So the disk is all partitioned and formatted but empty. > > > >Now I find I cannot bypass the disk partitioner in the installer, nor can > >I force it to use these partitions on the hilited drive This is using > >the installer in "expert" mode. > >
The wheezy installer _ought_ to work with a 4K disk - fdisk will normally work - but ... > > It will not let me change the "do not use" when I hilite a partition and > >hit enter. It doesn't even acknowledge the mount points "/boot" and "/" > >already set. > > Tab to the "do not use" and hit enter to allow you to change it. If given the option you probably should format each partition anyway to clear them. > >This is less than a desirable thing. > > > >How can I both bypass the broken partitioner, AND force it to use the > >partitions it finds on the hilited drive? > > > > > >Cheers, Gene Heskett > The installer takes you into the screen to select partitions. All you have > to do is tell it which partitions to use for what. It will default to > formatting them, I believe, but you can tell it not to format. It's not that > user-unfriendly. > > GPT partition tables include a legacy partition table so it works with older > software. > > Sorry I've got no screen prints to show you, but if you can figure out how > to switch the partition from "do not use" to ext4 or whatever file system > you prefer, the rest should be easy. > > None of this is rocket science. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54be9886.4020...@torfree.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150120194348.ga5...@galactic.demon.co.uk