Re: R4x00 and R5000 issues
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:37:23PM +0200, Krzysztof Krzyzaniak wrote:
> Installing debian on Indy (part II) ;-)
>
> booting is successful, intaller is starting, and now I want to partitiong
> disc (it's clean). After running fdisk and creating partition I have:
>
> Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 9 heads, 117 sectors, 4016 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1053 * 512 bytes
>
> ----- partitions -----
> Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System
> 1: /dev/sda1 boot 5 3900 4102488 83 Linux native
> 3: /dev/sda2 3901 4015 121095 82 Linux swap
> 9: /dev/sda3 0 4 5265 0 SGI volhdr
> 11: /dev/sda4 0 4015 4228848 6 SGI volume
> ----- Bootinfo -----
> Bootfile: /unix
> ----- Directory Entries -----
> 0: sgilabel sector 2 size 512
> 1: sash sector 3 size 283648
> 2: ide sector 558 size 283648
>
> and installer don't see any of linux partition. I've tried make system
The installer will add a filesystem in a later step to your linux
partition. Until then it will net be able to mount them.
> manually but dvhtool says that it is not possible to find free room. How to
> increase SGI volhdr?
You can simply delete partition Nr. 9 and readd it then with type 0.
Leave the Start at 0 and change the end to a bigger value.
-- Guido
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