Re: Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-06 Thread Ken Heard
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 04:59:07PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: LVM VG SOL, LV var - 3.2 gB Linux Device Mapper #1 3.2 gB SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 250.1 gB ATA WDC WD2500AAJS.0 #1 primary 82.2 mB B F ext3 /boot #2 primary 250.0 gB K lvm Undo changes to the

Re: Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:34:07PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: Its too soon to finish. You have marked for creating the LVs, and have labled them, but you still much choose each one (move curser, hit enter) and select use as and select a filesystem type, a filesystem lable, a mount point,

Re: Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-06 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 01:34:07 Ken Heard wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 04:59:07PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: LVM VG SOL, LV var - 3.2 gB Linux Device Mapper #1 3.2 gB SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 250.1 gB ATA WDC WD2500AAJS.0 #1 primary 82.2 mB B F ext3 /boot

Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-05 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to install Etch in a new box which has an Intel dual core CPU and a 250 gB SATA hard drive. Since the instructions in the Etch Installation Guide have not been helpful, I was consequently left with my intuition, which unfortunately proved

Re: Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 03:40:01PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 05:52:11PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: [snip] Can I suggest 2 things 1 make a bigger boot partition (i typically make it 500M - the cost of drives make this easy, plus it gives you room to move) But /boot only

Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-04 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to install Etch in a new box which has an Intel dual core CPU and a 250 gB SATA hard drive. Since the instructions in the Etch Installation Guide have not been helpful, I was consequently left with my intuition, which unfortunately proved

Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-04 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to install Etch in a new box which has an Intel dual core CPU and a 250 gB SATA hard drive. Since the instructions in the Etch Installation Guide have not been helpful, I was consequently left with my intuition, which unfortunately proved

Re: Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 04:59:07PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: LVM VG SOL, LV var - 3.2 gB Linux Device Mapper #1 3.2 gB SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 250.1 gB ATA WDC WD2500AAJS.0 #1 primary 82.2 mB B F ext3 /boot #2 primary 250.0 gB K lvm Undo changes to the partitions. Finish

Re: Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 05:52:11PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [snip] Can I suggest 2 things 1 make a bigger boot partition (i typically make it 500M - the cost of drives make this easy, plus it gives you room to move) 2 make another primary