Re: Disk partition on a Sparc 5

2001-10-05 Thread Thomas Duffy
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 21:39, Craig Ian Dewick wrote: > Why shouldn't the swap be in partition 1? That's where Sun's format seems we have an off by one error. linux thinks the first partition is 1, where sun says it is zero. i think we are on the same page. the first partition on the disk *cann

Re: Disk partition on a Sparc 5

2001-10-05 Thread Gabor Zoltan Csejtey
Hi, I have a following setup for Linux and Solaris: Linux disk: fdisk -l /dev/hdb Disk /dev/hdb (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 6779 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device FlagStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hdb1 0 2350 1184400 83

Re: Disk partition on a Sparc 5

2001-10-05 Thread Jean-Paul Blaquiere
> On Oct 05, Craig Ian Dewick illuminated with a virtual scribe : > Why shouldn't the swap be in partition 1? That's where Sun's format > program defaults to placing the swap partition. With a Solaris or NetBSD > installation, I always set it up this way: > doesn't have to be. Leftover legacy f

Re: Disk partition on a Sparc 5

2001-10-04 Thread Craig Ian Dewick
On 2 Oct 2001, Thomas Duffy wrote: > On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 19:22, David Demland wrote: > > I am trying to install Debian on a Sparc 5. I get to the point of partition > > the disk, question: What units should I use and what are the sizes? When I > > configure them they way I think they should be I

Re: Disk partition on a Sparc 5

2001-10-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 07:22:59PM -0700, David Demland wrote: > I am trying to install Debian on a Sparc 5. I get to the point of partition > the disk, question: What units should I use and what are the sizes? When I > configure them they way I think they should be I can not install the tar > ball

Re: Disk partition on a Sparc 5

2001-10-02 Thread Thomas Duffy
On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 19:22, David Demland wrote: > I am trying to install Debian on a Sparc 5. I get to the point of partition > the disk, question: What units should I use and what are the sizes? When I > configure them they way I think they should be I can not install the tar > balls there is an

Disk partition on a Sparc 5

2001-10-02 Thread David Demland
I am trying to install Debian on a Sparc 5. I get to the point of partition the disk, question: What units should I use and what are the sizes? When I configure them they way I think they should be I can not install the tar balls there is an error. I am sure it is disk space. Thank you for any hel