I've sent this to -user.
andrew
On 1/21/06, PunkSC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yesterday i downloaded the Etch installation Binary-1 and today i am trying
> to install, but when i try to "automatically partition hard drives" i got an
> error saying the step failed. I tried ALT+F2 and tried to ru
This is interesting. I took hdd and put it on hdb and did this:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
which took over 5 hours as I went to bed. It was done this am.
.. snip ..
I guess my question is what really controls the CHS layout of a disk?
(Nate mentioned firmware in a recent post.)
The dd in t
On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 19:09:19 -0500, Andy Firman wrote:
>
>
> I guess my question is what really controls the CHS layout of a disk?
> (Nate mentioned firmware in a recent post.)
>
> The dd in this command obviously changed the hdb drive's CHS layout.
>
Andy,
man fdisk
If you read the Descr
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:20:24PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote:
> > Do the physical drives and partitions have to be EXACTLY the
> > same for RAID 1 to work properly or will the following
> > layouts of my drives be sufficient?
>
> Briefly
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:58:12AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:49:16AM +0100, Wilko Fokken wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello. I am not a hard drive expert and need some help in
> > > understanding a few things
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:49:16AM +0100, Wilko Fokken wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote:
> >
> > Hello. I am not a hard drive expert and need some help in
> > understanding a few things.
> >
> > First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk,
> > othe
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote:
>
> Hello. I am not a hard drive expert and need some help in
> understanding a few things.
>
> First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk,
> other cfdisk being curses based?
>
I read somewhere that 'cfdisk' should be be
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:56:48PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:36:42AM +0100, GCS wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Second, I have 2 Western Digital drives.
> > > Both model WD400BB but they were manufactured
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:39:17PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
>
> On Saturday, Jan 3, 2004, at 14:52 America/Denver, Andy Firman wrote:
>
> >I partioned both disk's exactly the same using cfdisk
> >during the install. It seems that one drive has 4863 cylinders
> >and the other has 77545 cylinders.
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:36:42AM +0100, GCS wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Second, I have 2 Western Digital drives.
> > Both model WD400BB but they were manufactured about
> > 6 months apart.
> It may be an other revision, hdd contro
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:48:48PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote:
> >
> > Second, I have 2 Western Digital drives.
> > Both model WD400BB but they were manufactured about
> > 6 months apart. I just bought the second one as I want
> >
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote:
>
> Second, I have 2 Western Digital drives.
> Both model WD400BB but they were manufactured about
> 6 months apart. I just bought the second one as I want
> to try out Lucas' new Debian software Root on Raid howto.
Could you echo the
On Saturday, Jan 3, 2004, at 14:52 America/Denver, Andy Firman wrote:
Hello. I am not a hard drive expert and need some help in
understanding a few things.
Neither are most of us, but we'll try. ;-)
First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk,
other cfdisk being curses based?
fdisk i
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk,
> other cfdisk being curses based?
Not much, you can achieve your needs in both.
> Second, I have 2 Western Digital drives.
> Both model WD400BB but they were
hi ya andy
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Andy Firman wrote:
> First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk,
> other cfdisk being curses based?
imho, fdisk is more controllable of what it does ...
> I partioned both disk's exactly the same using cfdisk
> during the install. It seems that on
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote:
> First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk,
> other cfdisk being curses based?
They shall all partition your disk well. Just use the one that suits
the task.--There are no secret cheats in Debian, see?-)
> Do the physical
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:55:30AM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> Hi there:
>
> I want to repartition my hard disk, but when I try running cfdisk (and yes, I
> am root), I get an error message saying:
>
> "Cannot create logFATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 7: tended partitions
>
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:55:31PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote:
| 01.12.2002 18:07:53, "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
| > The linux booters (lilo, grub, syslinux, etc.) don't care about that
| > flag. It is MS-DOS and MS Windows that cares. Its possible that it
| > only car
01.12.2002 18:07:53, "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The linux booters (lilo, grub, syslinux, etc.) don't care about that
> flag. It is MS-DOS and MS Windows that cares. Its possible that it
> only cares if you use an MS boot loader, it may not matter when you
> chainload th
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 02:58:24PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote:
| Bruce Park wrote:
| >Hello all,
| >
| >First, thanks for all those to that replied with the original question.
| >OK, I have more question regarding cfdisk. I've successfully created the
| >boot, swap, and root partition. Here are som
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:56:42PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> First, thanks for all those to that replied with the original question.
> OK, I have more question regarding cfdisk. I've successfully created the
> boot, swap, and root partition. Here are some questions that still ling
Bruce Park wrote:
Hello all,
First, thanks for all those to that replied with the original question.
OK, I have more question regarding cfdisk. I've successfully created the
boot, swap, and root partition. Here are some questions that still
linger in my head.
1. Should I make the /boot bootable
Hi,
* Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-11-30 19:05]:
> I'm fooling around with cfdisk and wanted to ask the superiors about
>something. I plan to dual boot this with windows 2000. On the first
>partition because I've had disatrous results when windows is NOT on the
>first partition. Anyhow,
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:05:38PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm fooling around with cfdisk and wanted to ask the superiors about
> something. I plan to dual boot this with windows 2000. On the first
> partition because I've had disatrous results when windows is NOT on the
> f
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Harry Putnam wrote:
> How does one make an extended partition with cfdisk?
It does it automatically when you create a logical partition.
--
Simon Hepburn.
Further to this, I've been having a look back through the archives, and I've
decided to bring my kernel to a newer version and check again. I'm running
woody on 2.4.14SMP at the moment, so I'll bring it up to 2.4.17.
The strange thing is that I've never had any problems before. I've seen a few
Anthony Campbell wrote:
>What would you say are the advantages (and disadvantages) of reiserfs?
>
>--
For one, reiserfs is damn fast on small files, and has a VERY FAST delete
rate. there are some problems on reiserfs 3.x with NFS, and since it deletes
very fast (it uses fast-balanced trees a
Now I have started believing in God ! What exactly is reiserfs , how do I use it
(&should I ?) ?
Thanks,
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Shyam
- Original Message -
From: "Anthony Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: cfdisk
On
On 25 Aug 2001, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hey,
>
> you've only made the partition, you have no file-system (in other words,
> it's not ext2 because you have not made it ext2 (altho i would suggest
> using reiserfs, but that's your decision)). Anyway, try these commands,
> and then mount it:
>
>
Hey,
you've only made the partition, you have no file-system (in other words,
it's not ext2 because you have not made it ext2 (altho i would suggest
using reiserfs, but that's your decision)). Anyway, try these commands,
and then mount it:
mke2fs /dev/hda13
e2fsck /dev/hda13
mount /dev/hda13 /mn
I can confirm the following message!
This applies not only to large IDE HDs but also to
large SCSI HDs. You should enable "Large Block Access Mode"
or "Block Translation" or "DOS support for large disks"
in you SCSI BIOS. Be very shure to confirm that Win and Linux
agree about SCSI HD geometry.
Mi
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Nikos Voutsinas wrote:
nvouts >Hello,
nvouts >
nvouts >I would like to create a new partition (logical, type 83) using cfdisk.
I have done what ever I usually do but the last time I get a message saying
something like "Wrote partition table, but re-read table failed. Reboot
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 11:47:59AM +0200, Nikos Voutsinas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to create a new partition (logical, type 83) using
> cfdisk. I have done what ever I usually do but the last time I get a
> message saying something like "Wrote partition table, but re-read
> table failed.
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 01:43:44PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote:
> El vie, 03 de dic de 1999, a las 07:38:02 -0600, Brad dijo:
> > On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 12:16:33AM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote:
> > > But my question was different: when I first partitioned my disk, I
> > > left NO space without partiti
El vie, 03 de dic de 1999, a las 07:38:02 -0600, Brad dijo:
> On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 12:16:33AM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, but I already knew all that. In fact, /dev/hda2 is empty and is
> > not being used at all, so I could use that one.
>
> Note that that will still leave cyle
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:11:05PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote
>
> Looking at the cfsdisk table, I've just seen this (just look at the last
> line of the table):
>
> hda1 Boot Primary Linux ext2 78.45
> hda2 Primary Linux ext2 78.45
> hda5
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 12:16:33AM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote:
> El vie, 03 de dic de 1999, a las 03:43:39 -0600, Brad dijo:
> > On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:11:05PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote:
> > >
> > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > > /dev/hda1 *1 108
El vie, 03 de dic de 1999, a las 03:43:39 -0600, Brad dijo:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:11:05PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote:
> >
> >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hda1 *1 1080293+ 83 Linux native
> > /dev/hda2 11 2080325 8
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:11:05PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote:
>
>Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 *1 1080293+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda2 11 2080325 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda3 1000 1024 200812+ 82 Linux
I already tried that - Debian still hangs when initialising the partitions
(made with RH). I guess I'll have to stick with RedHat, which I'm none too
happy about I can tell you.
I say bug.
Martin
From: Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Martin Waller" <[
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 09:33:42AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install Debian (slink) on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop.
> Having got a boot disk for the Tecras, it now boots okay. But when I
> get to the partitioning the disk stage, I run into problems.
>
> Trying to use cf
Seth R Arnold wrote:
> Jens, do you think it would be a good idea to try to fill my hard drive, so
> that if things do start dissapearing, it is when I expect them to, rather
> than .. some time in the future, when I likely forget about the problem?
Yeah, that's not a bad strategy. At least then
Jens, do you think it would be a good idea to try to fill my hard drive, so
that if things do start dissapearing, it is when I expect them to, rather
than .. some time in the future, when I likely forget about the problem?
On the otherhand, I would expect e2fs to throw things mostly randomly on th
Hopefully this isn't bad (what would make it no bad? oooh is this complicated,
see doc
reference below). I also have one of these IBM disks which reports itself as
being
8GB. If things are working for you then that's great. I'm currently only using
8GB of
mine for this same reason.
Why does the
Duggan Dieterly said:
> while cfdisk will work with big disks, it will not work with the
> partition table created by windows 98. in order to use partitoions bigger
> than 2GB with windows 98, you must use the FAT32 partition scheme.
Again, it seemed to work fine for me. On an ~8 Gb drive with
while cfdisk will work with big disks, it will not work with the
partition table created by windows 98. in order to use partitoions bigger
than 2GB with windows 98, you must use the FAT32 partition scheme. (windows
calls this 'large disk support'.) i could not get cfdisk to work with
this parti
> Duggan Dieterly said:
> > just to let everyone know, cfdisk does not work with window FAT32
> > file partition tables. use fdisk instead.
>
> What happens? I've been able to create partitions extending beyond cylinder
> 1023 with (the current as of one week ago Potato) cfdisk, although the
> ve
Duggan Dieterly said:
> just to let everyone know, cfdisk does not work with window FAT32
> file partition tables. use fdisk instead.
What happens? I've been able to create partitions extending beyond cylinder
1023 with (the current as of one week ago Potato) cfdisk, although the
version on th
Duggan Dieterly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> at this point, i'm considering installing red hat. i have to buddies who
> have very similar machines, and they installed red hat with no problem.
You could try to use Redhat's fdisk to partition your disk, then install
debian. I had similar probl
win98 fdisk warns that if LONG DISK SUPPORT is enabled then no other
operating systems will be able to share the disk with windows 98. long disk
support is need so that i can get a partition bigger than 2 GB for windows 98.
will linux fdisk be able to work with the partition table that win98 writ
Some of the linux disk partition programs (cfdisk included) are "large
disk impaired" to be politically correct about the issue.
I've had wonderful results with programs like PartitionMagic doing the
partitioning and then installing linux into pre-made partitions.
Your mileage may vary, good luc
Duggan Dieterly wrote:
> i'm trying to install debian linux from a cd-rom that was in the 'Debian
> GNU/Linux Guide to Installation' book.
>
> the problem is that i have a 25 GB disk. if i want to use more than 2 GB for
> windows 98 (which i do) then i must enable long disk support when i use
>
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 09:06:56AM -0600, Duggan Dieterly wrote:
> i'm trying to install debian linux from a cd-rom that was in the 'Debian
> GNU/Linux Guide to Installation' book.
>
> the problem is that i have a 25 GB disk. if i want to use more than 2 GB for
> windows 98 (which i do) then i mu
Matthias Murra
> Hope this has helped to make my point a bit clearer. :-)
Indeed. As it turns out, my CD file hierarchy is all messed up so it is
_impossible_ to install right now. Thanks anyway!
- d.
"David Kane-Parry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can pass the geometry to the kernel 'til the cows come home 'cause 2.0.x
> won't see higher than 8.4GB.
Because you've been responding on the list to messages that haven't
been on the list (at least, I haven't seen them), I'm not sure what
makes y
Karl J Klug wrote:
> HmI don't know Can you pass the geometry to the kernel? If
> the boot messages show the correct C/H/S geometry, then the problem is
> with cfdisk, I guess. There's probably a way to force fdisk to use a
> particular geometry, but I've never tried it. Try looking
>> How come? I simply created a partition that would hold the basic Debian
>> slink system on the "8.4 GB drive" that cfdisk detected in conjunction
>> with the 2.0.x kernel, when what in fact I had was a 10 GB drive.
>
>Certainly an option, but I was holding out for a more out-of-the-box
>solution
Matthias Murra wrote:
> Your BIOS shouldn't be a problem then. Have you checked the BIOS
> settings?
Yeah, all the settings are Linux-friendly.
> How come? I simply created a partition that would hold the basic Debian
> slink system on the "8.4 GB drive" that cfdisk detected in conjunction
> with
>My BIOS is dated 6/8/99 and the Official CD, which I am trying to install
>from, uses a 2.0.36 kernel.
Your BIOS shouldn't be a problem then. Have you checked the BIOS settings?
>I've read the HOWTO, but installing a 2.2.x kernel is not an option yet
>since I haven't been able to install Debian
Matthias Murra wrote:
> I guess you're using a motherboard with a not-so-recent BIOS (like mine,
> which is from 1997) and a 2.0.x kernel.
My BIOS is dated 6/8/99 and the Official CD, which I am trying to install
from, uses a 2.0.36 kernel.
> Please see the Large Disk Mini HOWTO on details concer
>My BIOS won't tell me what C/H/S settings are being used, just size in MB,
>but I caught the C/H/S settings from the boot kernel (1024/240/63).
>However, I also found the data sheet for my hard drive, and although I'm not
>sure how to decipher it, I'm pretty sure the boot kernel C/H/S settings wer
Karl J Klug wrote:
> I think this is the drive that was in the Thinkpad we installed Linux on.
> We used
>
> 1825/240/63
>
> for the parameters.
I tried, but not matter what I entered, it kept seeing 1024/240/63. As a
test of sorts, I tried to install FreeBSD and it came off without a hitch.
Wha
Karl J Klug wrote:
> Look at the disk settings in your BIOS to see what C/H/S settings are
> being used. If you can figure out what disk you have you can get
> the real C/H/S settings from the manufacturers web site.
My BIOS won't tell me what C/H/S settings are being used, just size in MB,
but I
Karl J Klug wrote:
> Specify disk geometry when you boot:
Is there a way to find out what disk geometry to specify?
Why isn't it detected correctly / why is it detected incorrectly?
Thanks in advance!
- d.
*-Donald L Mainier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Can I get a copy of cfdisk, or is it buried in my packages somewhere?
It's in util-linux.
--
...Unix, MS-DOS, and MS Windows (also known as the Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly). (Matt Welsh)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elO
On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Donald L Mainier wrote:
> Can I get a copy of cfdisk, or is it buried in my packages somewhere?
You can find cfdisk on util-linux package !
Best regards,
Nuno Carvalho
Donald L Mainier hat gesagt: // Donald L Mainier wrote:
> Can I get a copy of cfdisk, or is it buried in my packages somewhere?
$ dpkg -S /sbin/cfdisk
util-linux: /sbin/cfdisk
--
____
Frank Barknecht __ __ tri
Nebu John Mathai wrote:
> Thanks for the scripts!
No problem.
> The problem turned out to be when WinNT partitioned its part of the
> drive, it messed up an adjacent primary partition.
>
> I have one more problem ... cfdisk reads the wrong disk geometry (ie, the
> C/H/S are wrong for my drive).
Thanks for the scripts!
The problem turned out to be when WinNT partitioned its part of the
drive, it messed up an adjacent primary partition.
I have one more problem ... cfdisk reads the wrong disk geometry (ie, the
C/H/S are wrong for my drive). Perhaps this is why the partitioning
conflicted b
Ok, here's an even better script for printing all partitions. Just run it like
'showpart.pl /dev/hda'.
Nebu John Mathai wrote:
> Has anone got this error?
>
> On installing Debian 2.0 I used cfdisk to partition my 8.4Gig drive. The
> first time I did it, I did not like the partition sizes (after
Nope, I looked at the source and cfdisk won't show you anything about the
partition
table if it doesn't make sense to it. However, this perl script will (all one
line, my
mailer my break it up):
perl -e 'open(IN," Has anone got this error?
>
> On installing Debian 2.0 I used cfdisk to partition
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jonathan Hester wrote:
> During installation of Debian Linux 1.3, I am getting the following error
> message when the installation software tries to partition my hard drive:
>
> FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition
> Press any key to exit fdisk
Hi,
Sometimes, cf
> > Is it legal to have multiple partitions marked as active (at work a machine
> > wouldn't boot untill I removed one of those marks)?
> > If it isn't, a bug should be filed against cfdisk.
> I don't know if it is legal have multiple partitions marked as active but
> if I understand correctly wh
> Is it legal to have multiple partitions marked as active (at work a machine
> wouldn't boot untill I removed one of those marks)?
> If it isn't, a bug should be filed against cfdisk.
>
I don't know if it is legal have multiple partitions marked as active but if I
understand correctly what is
I had some problems like this, where fdisk and cfdisk could no longer deal
with my disk. I posted somewhere and this wonderful fellow
A. E. Brouwer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
answered. He wrote fdisk3 . Some times it can read broken tables , get
the good info and spit out a clean one. It worked lik
butch wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> i seem to have a problem that came about from using cfdisk. are there any
> ways to correct or edit partition errors?
>
> allan
Few months ago, I tried using cfdisk to set the linux partition (>2GB),
and both linux and msdos fdisk denied to run and I have to low-level
f
On 23 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You had that problem on Debian _1.2_ ??? I thought that was fixed in 1.2 .
I had it on 1.2.5 (LSL tri-linux cd-rom).
Bob
Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 23 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You had that problem on Debian _1.2_ ??? I thought that was fixed in 1.2 .
Today I downloaded the 1.2 boot disks (dated Feb97) tried to install in a
Quatum HD, and cfdisk has that problem `can't fseek...'. fdisk worked.
The disk was in a LBA mode with
Never mind. I see the cast patch and I'll make sure that gets included.
Thanks
Bruce
You had that problem on Debian _1.2_ ??? I thought that was fixed in 1.2 .
Bruce
On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Michael Iles wrote:
[spip] referring to cfdisk w/ disks > 2G
>
> FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek on disk drive
>
After a suggestion on the BUG report system i have put the cast (ext2_loff_t)
at two places in the source file. It seems to work now. Specialists please
verify th
> "Michael" == Michael Iles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> I have only one physical drive, a 3.8 gig Quantum Fireball
Michael> that Linux = correctly detects. (At least I think it does;
Michael> I can see its name go by = in all the hardware information
Michael> that Linux prints
On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Michael Iles wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to install Debian Linux 1.2 and things were going well until I
> got to the 'partition hard drive' part. The _first_ time I picked this choice
> I editted my partition information to include a Linux and a Linux Swap
> partition. When I
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