Hi,
I tried to install Debian Woody on a PIII system with two SCSI discs
using FAI. I used fai 2.3.4 downloaded from sourceforge.
This is the disk configuration I used:
disk_config sda
primary / 512 rw, errors=remount-ro ; reiser
primary swap 2048
primary /usr 5000-6000 rw ; reiser
primary /var 1000- rw ; reiser
Unfortunately I don't have a log from that install. It complained about
too many primary partitions and aborted, even though there are exactly 4
primary partitions in the configuration. I used the same configuration
(except with hda instead of sda) for IDE systems before, without
problems.
I also tried an installation using both harddisks:
disk_config sda
primary / 512 rw, errors=remount-ro ; reiser
primary swap 2048
primary /usr 1000- rw ; reiser
disk_config sdb
primary swap 2048
primary /var 1000- rw ; reiser
Then it successfully created all partions but later tried to format
the non-existing sda4 with reiserfs ... and aborted.
I was able to fix the problem by commenting out a single line in
/sbin/setup_harddisks:
--- setup_harddisks.old Fri Oct 25 18:50:08 2002
+++ setup_harddisks Fri Oct 25 18:52:14 2002
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@
($MPPrimary{$extmp} eq "yes") && ($NoMoreLogicals = 1);
$MPPrimary{$mountpoint} = "yes";
$PrimPartNo++;
- ($PrimPartNo == 3) && ($disk =~ /^sd/) && ($PrimPartNo++);
+ #($PrimPartNo == 3) && ($disk =~ /^sd/) && ($PrimPartNo++);
($PrimPartNo >4 ) && die "ERROR: Too much primary partitions (max
4).".
" All logicals together need one primary too.\n";
$MountpointPart{$mountpoint} = PartName($disk,$PrimPartNo);
I don't know anything about perl, so I couldn't figure out what it is
actually supposed to do, but for me it was just causing trouble. I hope
this information helps finding a proper solution for the problem.
Best regards,
Felix
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