On Monday 26 October 2015 05:55:10 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > In article <qnkxq-5oc...@gated-at.bofh.it> Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > > I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did) > > > partitions of 200 MB size. I use the text based installer and > > > manual partitioning. > > > > On a 4k/sector, 2 terabyte disk? I tried from 500m to 2g, it would > > not accept it. Finally I said to use 5% of the disk, and that > > worked. Since > > Mmm... Lately, usually the installation is onto an SDD, so lately no. > > But earlier I'm quite sure I've done that. That should be around/with > Debian 6 and then probably not 4k/sector disk. > > But some SDD has claimed 4k/sector physical block size (but then again > they are not 2TB). > > Frankly, I don't see what the 4k/sector physical block size has to do > with it. > > > > Supposing your variant of installer can't, then why don't you boot > > > a live CD/stick and partition the hard drive before any booting > > > the installer and then you should be able to tell the installer to > > > just use the partitions without any repartitioning. > > > > The key phrase is "should be able to tell it to use what it finds", > > applying only mount point labels. I have not been allowed to do so > > by any linux installer over the last 7 or 8 years. That limitation > > has > > Again I don't understand why you can't. I have done that successfully > too. > > > Thats also when I parted company with fedora, forever. I was tired > > of being one of their development lab rats. Always something broken, > > screw it. > > ??? I'm talking about Debian.
I am too, now. And with that one caveat re the new big disks, debian's installer has Just Worked(TM) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
