Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:51:31 +0200 (MEST) From: Ruediger Oertel <ro@suse.de> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004050149120.13320-100000@fatou.suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-axp] installing on an ES40
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Waite, Michael wrote:
> 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.
What disk is this ? Do you happen to know the correct geometry ?
>
> If i ignore what fdisk is displaying and just do
> 3 through 150
> 151 through 350
> 351 through 800
> 801 through 1106
Did you just create the partitions or did you specify their types as well ?
>
> That seems to work but then when I go back to yast installer it is more
> confused than before.
Try to jump out of YaST back into linuxrc and then start YaSt again,
that might solve it.
>
> ----Mike
>
>
> Michael Waite
> Global Partnering Solutions Services
> Compaq Computer Corporation
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> Marlboro, Ma 01752
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>
>
>
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with kind regards (mit freundlichem Grinsen),
Ruediger Oertel (ro@suse.de)
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does "DONT PANIC" give a hint ?
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