Re: large disk woe under debian installation

2004-11-10 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 10.11.2004 at 09:52 +, michael wrote: > The 2.4 CD set doesn't support the 250Gb HD. I am reluctant to go > unstable for my server. Anybody else help? Specifically, can I just > plow ahead with ''woody'' on the 137Gb it does see and

Re: large disk woe under debian installation

2004-11-10 Thread michael
The 2.4 CD set doesn't support the 250Gb HD. I am reluctant to go unstable for my server. Anybody else help? Specifically, can I just plow ahead with ''woody'' on the 137Gb it does see and then upgrade kernel to a stable version that will see 250Gb and then partition the remainder? (And if not,

Re: large disk woe under debian installation

2004-11-09 Thread Rui Silva
first of all, please reply to the list and not to someone that helped you... i'm not sure, i mean sure you can partition only 120 gb, and then the rest, but i think it would be better if you installed a debian allready with a 2.4.XX kernel. i think woody cames with to kernels, 2.2.XX and 2.4.18,

Re: large disk woe under debian installation

2004-11-09 Thread Rui Silva
kernels under some versions of 2.4.XX don't have suport for LBA 48 (48 bits of adressinfg space), they only support 28 bits of addressing(129Gb). if you compile the 2.4.27 or some of 2.6.XX you will have suport for large disks. there is a thread in this list that explanes this... if you want t

large disk woe under debian installation

2004-11-09 Thread linux
Firstly, apologies that I have seen some discussion on the newsgroups of this already but much of it goes over my head so please be gentle with me! I've a new PC, that has 2 Xeon chips and a 250Gb Western Digital hard drive. It came with a 32Gb NTFS partition with WinXP SP2 installed. From the W