Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 23:09:17 +0200 From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Message-ID: <20010405230916.A24530@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Partitioning Hard Drives on Ultra Creator I
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 05, Walker, John wrote:
> Where can I find some specific information on partitioning multiple hard
> drives on my Ultra Creator I. Have a 2GB internal SCSI drive and 2 external
> 2GB SCSI drives. The YAST2 installer with Suse-Sparc 7.1 will only allow me
> to select one of the drives for partitioning in the "automatic" install
Yes, the automatic install mode can only partition one disk. It is not
possible to use more then one disk, for this you need to use the
customize partitioner. There is not very much you can make wrong,
YaST2 has a good checker which tells you the common mistakes.
> mode. Don't know enough about partitioning drives under linux yet to go
> into "expert" install mode. Tried some brief searches for partitioning info
> on a Suse-Sparc setup but only seem to find "How-To's" for Intel based
> machines. Any pointers or leads on where I can get the info would be most
> appreciated.
There is no big difference between Intel based machines and SPARC.
On SPARC, you have 8 primary partitions and no extended, so on each
disk you can only create 8 partitions. partition 3 is the "whole disk"
and should not be used (for historical reasons, I don't know any real
reason in the moment).
Thorsten
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