Re: Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-06 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 01:34:07 Ken Heard wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 04:59:07PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > >> LVM VG SOL, LV var - 3.2 gB Linux Device Mapper > >>#1 3.2 gB > >> SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 250.1 gB ATA WDC WD2500AAJS.0 > >>#1 primary 82.2 mB B F

Re: Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:34:07PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > > Its too soon to finish. You have marked for creating the LVs, and have > > labled them, but you still much choose each one (move curser, hit enter) > > and select "use as" and select a filesystem type, a filesystem lable, a > > mount

Re: Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-06 Thread Ken Heard
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 04:59:07PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: >> LVM VG SOL, LV var - 3.2 gB Linux Device Mapper >> #1 3.2 gB >> SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 250.1 gB ATA WDC WD2500AAJS.0 >> #1 primary 82.2 mB B F ext3 /boot >> #2 primary 250.0 gB K lvm >> >> Undo

Re: Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 03:40:01PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 05:52:11PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > [snip] > > Can I suggest 2 things > 1 make a bigger boot partition (i typically make it 500M - the cost of > drives make this easy, plus it gives you room to move) But /boot

Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-05 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to install Etch in a new box which has an Intel dual core CPU and a 250 gB SATA hard drive. Since the instructions in the Etch Installation Guide have not been helpful, I was consequently left with my intuition, which unfortunately proved

Re: Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 05:52:11PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > [snip] Can I suggest 2 things 1 make a bigger boot partition (i typically make it 500M - the cost of drives make this easy, plus it gives you room to move) 2 make another primary partit

Re: Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 04:59:07PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > LVM VG SOL, LV var - 3.2 gB Linux Device Mapper > #1 3.2 gB > SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 250.1 gB ATA WDC WD2500AAJS.0 > #1 primary 82.2 mB B F ext3 /boot > #2 primary 250.0 gB K lvm > > Undo changes to the partitions. >

Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-04 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to install Etch in a new box which has an Intel dual core CPU and a 250 gB SATA hard drive. Since the instructions in the Etch Installation Guide have not been helpful, I was consequently left with my intuition, which unfortunately proved

Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-04 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to install Etch in a new box which has an Intel dual core CPU and a 250 gB SATA hard drive. Since the instructions in the Etch Installation Guide have not been helpful, I was consequently left with my intuition, which unfortunately proved