On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:
> first the annoying but not critical problem, the bios shows the disk
> capacity as 22606, but when I check to see what the capacity I can
> get out of it from fdisk (by creating one full disk partition and
> checking the size) I only get 21145 or something close to that, about
> 1000 MB are `missing' and unavailable, is this an fdisk bug? or is
> the BIOS wrong? I know disks often dont have the capacity advertised
> but a whole GB...??
22606/(1.024^2) = 21558 [ie bios shows million bytes, and fdisk probably
shows megabytes], and the other 400M can possibly be explained some other
way, like superblock copies et al.
<big snip>
> this is fdisk 2.8 for redhat...
Get util-linux-2.9y, compile it [but don't install the entire util-linux
package unless you know what you're doing], and run the fdisk or cfdisk
contained in that.
<big snip>
> ideas?
Try installing the base debian system from floppy, then installing the
rest over the internet. There are floppy images on the debian web site,
and it only takes about nine floppies (approx). And a few hours online.
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