Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 00:01:01 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Hazlehurst <brian@dcog.net> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0202262359440.4875-100000@kroeber.dcog.net> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] YasT2 install problems, 7.3
I'd like to know the answer to this also. I couldn't do it, and had to
reconfigure the hardware to get at the disk with my older (7.1) system
first, and then run the new install of 7.3 under Yast.
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Martin Herren wrote:
> Thorsten Hahn wrote:
> >
> > Hi Brian,
> >
> > it seems that fdisk has sometimes problemes with sun-labeled disks. Try to
> > start yast as you did, but donīt re-partition, switch to another console and
> > delete the whole partition-table manually with fdisk (donīt forget to
> > write). Then reboot - and I hope yast can handle your disk know. I had this
> > effect sometimes, too, always with sunOS/NetBSD-labeled disks.
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Thorsten
>
> Hej,
>
> i'm trying to install SuSE 7.3 on a SparcStation 5 over a serial
> console.
> YaST2 is not able to format my disk (unkown partition table or something
> like this), so i would like to get a shell to remove the partition
> table.
> Is this possible over a serial console ? I didn't find any way to do a
> console switch or to launch a shell...
>
> /Martin
>
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