installing on an ES40

From: Waite, Michael (Michael.Waite@compaq.com)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 15:40:54 PDT

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    From: "Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@compaq.com>
    Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 18:40:54 -0400 
    Subject: installing on an ES40
    

    Um,
    So I am trying to put SuSE 6.3 on an ES40 with 8 gigs and eight 9gig
    internal disks.

    What is the recommended way to get the installer to correctly write
    partitions onto the disks?
    For example.....the yast installer does not seem to want to talk to the disk
    correctly. It keeps complaining about bacd superblocks/or/ too many mounted
    filesyste.

    When I run "fdisk" from another tty it has no idea what the correct number
    of cylendars are on the disk.

    If i ignore what fdisk is displaying and just do
    3 through 150
    151 through 350
    351 through 800
    801 through 1106

    That seems to work but then when I go back to yast installer it is more
    confused than before.

    ----Mike
     

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