CTRL-ALT-F3 or F? to another terminal. Run fdisk manually ("fdisk
/dev/sda"). Wipe out all partitions except the "whole disk" partition.
Commit and reboot. Then rerun setup.
Same thing happened on my SS20. Apparently, something still has one of the
partitions 'locked' and you cant rewrite the partition table without
rebooting after you've cleared it?
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 2:47 PM
Subject: [suse-sparc] installation on SS20
> hi all,
> when i try to install Suse 7.3 on my Sun SparcStation 20, yast can't
format
> the partitions.
>
> after i enter the password for root and make a default user account etc,
> yast tries to prepair the hd for the installation and then i get the error
> message:
> - swap-partition /dev/sda2 could not be created [ok]
> - impossible to format /dev/sda1 , i can click on continue or try again,
> but nothing will work.... and here stops the installation :(
>
> both 1.05GB HDs have a sun disk label or slice, which covers the whole
> harddrive.
> i am not sure if i need to delete that label or not.
> do i need to make changes to the configuration of Silo?
> any help would be most appreciated
>
> regards
> Chris
>
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