Sean Finney wrote: > Debian-installer-version: sarge-sparc-netinst (rc2) > > Everything worked great up until i went to partition it. previously > this machine ran solaris 8 with metadisk filesystems, fwiw. the > installer successfully recognized the previosly existing partitions, but > after i wiped them i was unable to create any new partitions. the > process would go something like > > - - menu lists available disks > - - i select one disk > - do you want to erase this disk label and start with a new one? > - yes > - return to "menu lists available disks", nothing changes > > if i try and use the "guided partitioning", the screen turns red > and says that it was unable to read/write the partition table, which > might happen if there are too many primary partitions. Would it be possible for you to try again using a current daily build instead of rc2? See our website for links. Also, it would probably be helpful if you could pull /var/log/partman from the installer and send it to this bug report. Might give some hints as to why the disk label write failed. -- see shy jo
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