Re: Formatting a 4GB Partition
This problem only exists on the boot floppies. That means if you can install on any small partition (where anything under 1024MB is small) you can then make the filesystem correctly once the system has been installed on your hard disk. I will try to get a new boot floppy set uploaded in the next few days. Bruce
Re: Formatting a 4GB Partition
There was some kind of a bug in 2.0.7, so 2.0.8 was released; similarly for 2.0.8-2.0.9 and 2.0.9-2.0.10. 2.0.8 is however, stable. This is the kernel which the current Debian installation uses. the message Can't resolve symbol llseek. This sounds like a programming error. The symbol should be lseek. No. llseek is a version of lseek using a 64bit argument (which is required when dealing with 4Gb partitions). # cd /usr/lib ; nm libc.a | grep llseek __llseek.o: T __llseek W llseek See llseek(2). Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before.
Re: Formatting a 4GB Partition
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:48:47 +, Karsten Mueller wrote: I tried to install Debian 1.1 on a 4GB Partition using the kernel 2.07 There was some kind of a bug in 2.0.7, so 2.0.8 was released; similarly for 2.0.8-2.0.9 and 2.0.9-2.0.10. 2.0.8 is however, stable. This is the kernel which the current Debian installation uses. the message Can't resolve symbol llseek. This sounds like a programming error. The symbol should be lseek.
Formatting a 4GB Partition
Hello, I tried to install Debian 1.1 on a 4GB Partition using the kernel 2.07 with NCR8010 Support. The disk is a Quantum Atlas. After writing 255 inodes on disk the formatting stopped with the message Can't resolve symbol llseek. Does anybody know if the formatting should work in general and what goes wrong in this special case ? It would be nice if could also you mail me directly because I could only read possible answers in the maillist archive ... bye, Karsten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Formatting a 4GB Partition
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:48:47 +, Karsten Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I tried to install Debian 1.1 on a 4GB Partition using the kernel 2.07 with NCR8010 Support. The disk is a Quantum Atlas. After writing 255 inodes on disk the formatting stopped with the message Can't resolve symbol llseek. I also have a Quantum Atlas, and the same thing happened to me. Apparently some piece of software required to format beyond 255 inodes is not compiled into the kernel on the boot floppy. I worked around it as follows: 1. Created a single 300MB partition, left everything beyond that partition as free space. 2. Installed Linux on the existing partition, including /usr. 3. Used my installed Linux to create a new partition and initialize the file system on the remaining disk space. 4. Mounted the new partition on /mnt. 5. Copied all of /usr over to the new partition, using cp -a. 6. (IMPORTANT!) Checked to make sure that all /usr files were in their proper places in the new partition. 7. Edited /etc/fstab to mount the new partition as /usr when the system starts up. 8. Deleted all /usr files from the original partition with rm -r /usr. 9. Created a new, empty /usr directory with mkdir /usr. 10. Unmounted the new partition and remounted it on /usr. This worked the first time, and I've had no problems with the system since then. -Randy -- http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~gobbel/ NOTICE: I DO NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL MESSAGES OF ANY KIND. I CONSIDER SUCH MESSAGES PERSONAL HARRASSMENT AND A GROSS INVASION OF MY PRIVACY. By sending unsolicited commercial advertising/solicitations (or otherwise on or as part of a mailing list) to me via e-mail you will be indicating your consent to paying John R. (Randy) Gobbel $1,000.00 U.S.D./hour for a minimum of 1 hour for my time spent dealing with it. Payment due in 30 days upon receipt of an invoice (e-mail or regular mail) from me or my authorized representative.
Re: Formatting a 4GB Partition
: : Hello, : : I tried to install Debian 1.1 on a 4GB Partition using the kernel 2.07 : with NCR8010 Support. The disk is a Quantum Atlas. : After writing 255 inodes on disk the formatting stopped with : the message Can't resolve symbol llseek. : : Does anybody know if the formatting should work in general : and what goes wrong in this special case ? : : It would be nice if could also you mail me directly because I could : only read possible answers in the maillist archive ... : : bye, Karsten [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I had the same problem with Conner 4207S and here's the reply from Ted when I asked the same question to him a while back. Sounds like an incompatibility between the libc used to compile mke2fs and the libc on your boot disk. If you recompile mke2fs, or upgrade the shared libraries on your system, this probably should go away. What version of shared library are you using on your system? llseek has been included in libc for quite a while Does this mean Debian e2fsprogs-1.02-1 should be upgraded to 1.04 or should be rebuilt at least with new libc5 ? At that time, my trick was using fdisk v2.1(4GB) and mke2fs(v0.5b) under slackware-2.3 setup menu to successfully format 4gb single partition. Hope this helps, Joownoo -- Joonwoo Nam MAGNUMS(MAssachusetts Group for NUMerical analysis of Semiconductors) Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMASS at Amherst e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / work:413-545-4762 / fax:413-545-4611 http://khushi.ecs.umass.edu/~nam
