On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:43:48 Andrew M.A. Cater did opine And Gene did reply: > 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 work, poorly, giving ass-aligned disk that will be slow, or slower. > > > > 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. Tried that, no popup, or other effect other than a screen redraw. > > 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. No, but I'd say its on a par with Apollo 13. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- 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/201501201931.10993.ghesk...@wdtv.com