* [9fans] partdisk is greedy...
@ 2003-07-09 22:08 Martin Althoff
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From: Martin Althoff @ 2003-07-09 22:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Starting of with a new installation on a previously used disk.
The point where partdisk comes around, I first deleted all partitions
previously on the disk (20GB Maxtor) and created a new one (a p1 0 512)
giving me a partition of just short or 4GB. Execute write, quit and I
land at partdisk again. It shows a blank partition table.
Accepting the default p1 on the blanked disk and writing that to the
mbr is fine. I can continue the installation.
Variants I have tried:
- Another disk (20GB IBM) - same effect.
- Putting a DOS (no, not denial of service) 2 GB partition on the disk
first. Same thing: if I allow partdisk to take the whole space things
are fine. Giving just a part of the disk does not work.
Is partdisk greedy?? Any other ideas? Help greatly appreciated.
All the best,
Martin
Written Wednesday, July 9, 2003 at 22:59:19
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