Re: [9fans] non-standard installs

[Martin C.Atkins <martin@mca-ltd.com>]

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:36:35 0000 forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk wrote:
> >>I found (repeatedly) that trying to put Plan 9 into a clean
> >>secondary partition corrupted the size of the enclosing primary
> >>partition. I was able to put it back, but thankfully the whole 40Gb
> 
> i don't understand how it got that far.  it normally refuses to
> install into anything other than unused space not claimed by anything else,
> that is space not in any partition, and
> certainly not space inside another partition.  (i didn't know it was
> even possible to set such a configuration on a PC using Windows fdisk
> or partdisk [or is it diskpart?].)
> 

Oh dear, it's a couple of weeks ago now, and I'm not sure I can remember
very reliably. I *think* what I did was to chose a suitable, existing, empty,
secondary partition, and delete it to make the space to be found by
the installer. I had Linux installed in another partition, so I wasn't
limited to dos/windows fdisk (that's how I was able to put the partition
table back together again... Well beyond dos's fdisk! :-)

Your (Vita Nuova's) instructions, and what I saw in the output from partdisk (i.e.
partitions called "pN", and "sN"), suggested to me that partdisk should
understand secondary partitions. But re-reading the installation instructions
as I write this note, I see that at the beginning (under system requirements)
it says that a "free primary partition slot" is needed, so obviously my "big
mistake" was to miss this when I did the install!

Martin
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Martin C. Atkins	martin@mca-ltd.com
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