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Quoting Martin Str|mberg ([email protected]): > In article <[email protected]> Gene Heskett > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > > I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did) partitions of > > > 200 MB size. I use the text based installer and manual partitioning. > > > > > On a 4k/sector, 2 terabyte disk? I tried from 500m to 2g, it would not > > accept it. Finally I said to use 5% of the disk, and that worked. Since > > Mmm... Lately, usually the installation is onto an SDD, so lately no. > > But earlier I'm quite sure I've done that. That should be around/with > Debian 6 and then probably not 4k/sector disk. > > But some SDD has claimed 4k/sector physical block size (but then again > they are not 2TB). > > Frankly, I don't see what the 4k/sector physical block size has to do > with it. > > > > Supposing your variant of installer can't, then why don't you boot a > > > live CD/stick and partition the hard drive before any booting the > > > installer and then you should be able to tell the installer to just > > > use the partitions without any repartitioning. > > > The key phrase is "should be able to tell it to use what it finds", > > applying only mount point labels. I have not been allowed to do so by > > any linux installer over the last 7 or 8 years. That limitation has > > Again I don't understand why you can't. I have done that successfully > too. > > > Thats also when I parted company with fedora, forever. I was tired of > > being one of their development lab rats. Always something broken, screw > > it. > > ??? I'm talking about Debian. Two posts further down the thread is Message-Id: <[email protected]> which reveals: -Then linuxcnc switched to a wheezy build for their install image about a ^^^^^^^^ -year back, and until the 2 terabyte disk with 4k sectors became the -commodity drive, it just worked. Now we're back to fighting with old -bios's unless we setup a small boot partition on the outside edge of the -disk. This particular horse was flogged to death in January. The grim details start at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/01/msg00706.html If you haven't started self-harming by now, you can continue at: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/01/msg00719.html before risking all by moving on to: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/02/msg00070.html Cheers, David.
