Re: squeeze on 2TB drive

2011-03-10 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:56:23 -0500, chris wrote: > I am trying to setup squeeze on a machine with a WD2001FAS (2TB). The > first problem I am having is that when I initialize the drive it doesn't > prompt me for MBR/GPT so I assume its doing GPT? Most modern linux systems automatically manage th

Re: squeeze on 2TB drive

2011-03-10 Thread David Christensen
On 03/10/2011 10:57 AM, chris wrote: As for the suggestion to format the drive ahead of time this doesnt help as grub still fails to install, so something is obviously still wrong. I use debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1 via Jigdo: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/i386/jigdo-dvd/ At the ve

Re: squeeze on 2TB drive

2011-03-10 Thread chris
Found some info that I think is relevant: https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=149305 http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-315827.html googling for grub and 2tb brings up alot of results and for the most part it seems like its just a nightmare i think 2tb drives are pretty

Re: squeeze on 2TB drive

2011-03-10 Thread chris
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 10. 03. 2011 17:56:23 je chris napisal(a): >> >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to setup squeeze on a machine with a WD2001FAS (2TB). The >> first problem I am having is that when I initialize the drive it >> doesn't prompt me for MBR/GPT so I assu

Re: squeeze on 2TB drive

2011-03-10 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 10. 03. 2011 17:56:23 je chris napisal(a): Hello, I am trying to setup squeeze on a machine with a WD2001FAS (2TB). The first problem I am having is that when I initialize the drive it doesn't prompt me for MBR/GPT so I assume its doing GPT? Secondly, when I create my first partition it is

Re: squeeze on 2TB drive

2011-03-10 Thread chris
I dont think it is one of those types of drives afaik. On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > chris wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to setup squeeze on a machine with a WD2001FAS (2TB). The >> first problem I am having is that when I initialize the drive it >> doesn't pr

Re: squeeze on 2TB drive

2011-03-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
chris wrote: Hello, I am trying to setup squeeze on a machine with a WD2001FAS (2TB). The first problem I am having is that when I initialize the drive it doesn't prompt me for MBR/GPT so I assume its doing GPT? Secondly, when I create my first partition it is 8GB, ext4, I cannot make it bootabl

squeeze on 2TB drive

2011-03-10 Thread chris
Hello, I am trying to setup squeeze on a machine with a WD2001FAS (2TB). The first problem I am having is that when I initialize the drive it doesn't prompt me for MBR/GPT so I assume its doing GPT? Secondly, when I create my first partition it is 8GB, ext4, I cannot make it bootable. I continue t