From: Donn Cave <donn@drizzle.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] installer partition magic
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 10:22:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1004904906.522561@yabetcha.sttl.drizzle.com> (raw)
I managed to screw up the disk partitions on my laptop a second
time in a row this morning with the 9disk.9fd installer, and I
expect it would do it every time.
After "partdisk" I had partition block offsets,
63 2345490 4707045 7068600
and I used my NetBSD install disk to move them to
63 2345490 4717504 7076224
so I can boot the original partitions.
I can't remember by now how I set those partitions up,
whether it was NetBSD or (more likely) the Partition Magic
installer from BeOS 4.0 distribution. I notice that the
Plan 9 fdisk presents partition sizes in cylinders,
where the Partition Magic uses megabytes. I don't know
if that's it - 9fdisk is forcing partitions to cylinder
alignment - or what.
The Plan 9 installation went on the first partition, which
seems to have retained its dimensions. I seem to have some
network problem, because the download timed out (no error
message though.) I saved the install state and, if I try
again, it won't rewrite the partition map this time, right?
While I'm complaining about partdisk, I should mention that
the procedure assures me that it's going to locate a partition
on its own and just tell me, and then it comes back and says
it can't find a suitable partition. The ideal thing from my
point of view, would be for it to just ask me.
Donn Cave, donn@drizzle.com
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