Roman Hodek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I was receiving the message "error reading sector 0" all the time,
> > but cfdisk handled the partitioning just fine, so I expect this is a
> > problem in libfdisk or dinstall somewhere.
>
> That's really strange, since the message is about a real read
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Was your swap partition a logical partition? libfdisk had a bug reading
> extended partitions in big disks. A fixed libfdisk will be included in next
> boot-floppies release.
Yes, it was a logical partition. It seems this problem is well known now.
> I was receiving the message "error reading sector 0" all the time,
> but cfdisk handled the partitioning just fine, so I expect this is a
> problem in libfdisk or dinstall somewhere.
That's really strange, since the message is about a real read error.
Is something special about the disk or the
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 04:07:13PM +1000, Martin Mitchell wrote:
> Another thing that caused trouble when I tried installing from the base
> disks (1998-04-11) yesterday was a libfdisk error that prevented dinstall
> from detecting that a swap partition had been created. An error message
> was prin
Another thing that caused trouble when I tried installing from the base
disks (1998-04-11) yesterday was a libfdisk error that prevented dinstall
from detecting that a swap partition had been created. An error message
was printed before returning to the dinstall menu, and it came from this
section
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