Re: [suse-sparc] Hint for failing disk partitioning

From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 14:13:02 PDT

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From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Message-ID: <20000914231302.A12968@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Hint for failing disk partitioning

    Hi,

    On Thu, Sep 14, Ralf Sauther wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > i just tried to install SuSE 7.0 on my SS20. The installation on "Whole
    > disk" failed while writing the partition table and resulted in "Error while
    > installation" without further notice.
    >
    > The reason for this was a timeout while writing the partition table on my
    > 4,3gb DCAS. The disk was formerly used by a PC-system, so there was no Sun
    > Disklabel on it. After writing the disklabel manually, the installation
    > completed fine.

    Yes, we found the problem already. I hope we will find a solution
    which works in every case, in the moment I only see an extra checkbox.

      Thorsten 

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Thorsten Kukuk       http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/       kukuk@suse.de
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