From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Donn Cave Message-ID: <1004904906.522561@yabetcha.sttl.drizzle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: [9fans] installer partition magic Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 10:22:04 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1359fc1e-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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