From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin C.Atkins To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] non-standard installs Message-Id: <20020321190441.78b15d24.martin@mca-ltd.com> In-Reply-To: <20020321083934.25E8619A84@mail.cse.psu.edu> References: <20020321083934.25E8619A84@mail.cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:04:41 +0530 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6b990802-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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 -- Martin C. Atkins martin@mca-ltd.com Mission Critical Applications Ltd, U.K.