On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:04:30PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > I've found that I get best results when I set the disk, in the BIOS,
> > to standard translation, rather than to LBA or Large.
After replacing util-linux v. 2.7.1-3 with v. 2.10.f-5 (and therefore
replacing fdisk) the proble
> I've found that I get best results when I set the disk, in the BIOS,
> to standard translation, rather than to LBA or Large.
>
same for me. that way i get 25000+ cylinders, but it works.
it depends heavily on the disk. i have one from fujitsu.
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I suggest to use a partition manager (that run under Dos) and I found on
net recently (I haven't really try it, just a look, because my PC is
stable now). It seems to support very large HD.
You can find it at
http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzsv20/
It has a boot manager too and can create Extend and swa
PS : I should add that I've not an awful lot of experience installing
Debian, since I don't have hardware to experiment with. I've only
installed on three or four different computers. (quite a few times,
but only on those few machines.)
I've found that I get best results when I set the disk, in the BIOS,
to standard translation, rather than to LBA or Large.
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> Maybe it isn't a problem, but fdisk complains about overlapping areas if
> I make a partition check (v):
>
> Warning: partition 10 overlaps partition 11.
> Warning: partition 10 overlaps partition 12.
> Warning: partition 11 overlaps partition 12.
> 578832 unallocated sectors
>
oops. that's in
On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 08:13:03PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > /dev/sdb111024 1061 1085 200781 82 Linux swap
> > /dev/sdb121024 1086 1115 240943+ 83 Linux native
> >
> > I deleted partition 11 and 12 but after creating a new partition starting
> >
> /dev/sdb111024 1061 1085 200781 82 Linux swap
> /dev/sdb121024 1086 1115 240943+ 83 Linux native
>
> I deleted partition 11 and 12 but after creating a new partition starting
> at cylinder 1061 there is still the wrong bin value of 1024.
>
i don't think,
Thanks Harmon your advice worked. I will log this as a problem.
- Al
-Original Message-
From: Harmon Sequoya Nine [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 1997 12:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:Re: fdisk problem - can't
Assuming you are using "cfdisk", the fdisk utility that is run as part of the
initial Debian installation (i.e. the 6 disks).
I had the same problem when I partitioned a large disk. I particular I was
partitioning it into several logical partitions on the outer-most part
of the disk. "cfdisk" di
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