Re: [expert] Certainly too late to report...
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 12:06 pm, Steven Broos sent this :- In expert-mode there should be an option to use fdisk, isn't it ? There should be no problem with fdisk Steven. -- Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. Aldous Huxley This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.0, Kmail v1.4.3 and OpenOffice.org1.0.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Certainly too late to report...
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 12:14 pm, Pierre Fortin sent this :- I did nothing to fix the partitions, only got the 9.1 installer to finally accept what I'd done... That should have been fine then. I always use the default diskdruid to name and format the partitions already on the hard drive, but have never made or resized them with it. So that should be all right. Maybe someone els can shed light on your problem? -- Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. Aldous Huxley This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.0, Kmail v1.4.3 and OpenOffice.org1.0.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Certainly too late to report...
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:28 pm, Pierre Fortin sent this :- Here's an interesting install bug on 9.1... for which there is no place to report, even back on day 1 of 9.1final's release... I don't know what partitioning tool that you used. But some time ago i installed Debian, and had a lot of trouble with the partition, because i used not fdisk or whatever. I used the other one that comes with the distro. It was not a success. I was sent emails showing that with certain disks the partitioning tool I used was flawed. I dropped Debian. With Partition magic I worked on the partitiuon, but it was not easy to get that partition on the hard drive back to something that could be worked with. Sorry that I can't be more specific, but I always use partition magic to make any partition. I thought I wrote it down somewhere, but can't locate it. The information about it is on the web apparently though, because that is where the information that was sent to me was sourced. Maybe google for the information? I can't do it for you because I can't recall what it is called. csfdisk or something? Charlie. -- Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. Aldous Huxley This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.0, Kmail v1.4.3 and OpenOffice.org1.0.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Certainly too late to report...
I always use fdisk CLI to create the partitions needed, and mount them in the GUI-app from the installation-process. I never experienced any problems with this. In expert-mode there should be an option to use fdisk, isn't it ? Steven Sorry that I can't be more specific, but I always use partition magic to make any partition. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Certainly too late to report...
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 19:45:18 + charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:28 pm, Pierre Fortin sent this :- Here's an interesting install bug on 9.1... for which there is no place to report, even back on day 1 of 9.1final's release... I don't know what partitioning tool that you used. ML9.1's fdisk... the system was already running 9.1 -- I did nothing to fix the partitions, only got the 9.1 installer to finally accept what I'd done... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Certainly too late to report...
Here's an interesting install bug on 9.1... for which there is no place to report, even back on day 1 of 9.1final's release... I orginally installed 8.2 on my IBM Thinkpad A20m, then upgraded to 9.0, then to 9.1 Lots of folk have stated that I should have *installed* instead... well... install kinda sucks too... Today, I received my new 40G HD, and not wanting to risk losing data, I connected the new drive via a USB box... Still on 8.2-9.0-9.1, I created the following partitions on the new drive: Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 38154 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Device BootBlocks Id System As To become /dev/sda1 * 511984 83 Linux /91/ /dev/sda2 385576965 Extended /dev/sda54095984 83 Linux /91/usr/usr /dev/sda6 511984 83 Linux /91/var/var /dev/sda71023984 82 Linux swap /dev/sda81023984 83 Linux /tmp /tmp /dev/sda9 511984 83 Linux /x alt / /dev/sda10 4095984 83 Linux /x/usr alt /usr /dev/sda11511984 83 Linux /x/var alt /var /dev/sda12 5119984 83 Linux /home /home /dev/sda13 5119984 83 Linux /usr/local /usr/local /dev/sda14 6143984 83 Linux /ISO /ISO /dev/sda15 10397680 83 Linux /var/www /var/www and copied most of my data over from the old 12G HD with the following partitions: Disk /dev/hda: 12.0 GB, 12068904960 bytes 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1559 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes Device BootBlocks Id System WasTo become /dev/hda1 * 597208 83 Linux / /old /dev/hda2 111888005 Extended /dev/hda5 975208 82 Linux swap /dev/hda63628768 83 Linux /usr /old/usr /dev/hda71527088 83 Linux /var /old/var /dev/hda85057608 83 Linux /home /old/home Note that the swap partitions are on the 40G partition 7 (4th) and 12G partition 5 (2nd)... Then, I physically swapped the old 12G and new 40G HDs... Powered up, inserted CD1 and started the install with F1-expert... Got to the partitioning step and... BUG: sda7 (now hda7) swap claims to be a Linux partition BUG: sda7 (now hda7) shows it will be mounted as /var BUG: sda5 (now hda5) claims to be a SWAP partition BUG: old hda5 (now sda5) swap claims to be a Linux partition BUG: old hda7 (now sda7) claims to be a SWAP partition Clearly a case of either NOT reading the partition tables or not paying attention to which is which... In expert mode, I found no way to unmount the SWAP=/var partition... Yup /var over the green partition... Next, I disconnected the external USB 12G HD and restarted the install using the default (Enter) mode... Here, got the same problem; but at least I was able to get around it... otherwise, I would have had to switch the drives back. Visually, both partitioning tools appeared identical, they reported similar erroneous partitions; but the normal mode was more capable than the expert mode... I now have the space needed to test 9.2 betas (if I can find time); but not sure I want to risk my hardwre by swapping disks for _this_ set of problems... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
