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Re: Amiga Harddrive installing problems



On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 03:46:27PM +0100, Sixten Johansson wrote:
> 
> Hi, I can't get the installation-program to find my IDE HD. It can not
> pation it(the one "partion/drive" I can pick to partion is DEV / HDA)
> becauce there is a short error mess. that I can't read(it is to quick)...
maybe you can log that message with booting with debug=mem and dmesg? See
quickinstall docs (you _are_ using debian 2.2?).

> When I trie to list the partiontabel it only finds one(my first)
> partion(ADOS) DEV / HDA1 but not the others. It can not find my two
> partionsI prepared with hd-toolbox:  hda4, hda5 becauce they are the "last"
>  ones. In the shellwindow and with fdisk i can see my patrions as
> DEV / hda4, hda5.  But the installaionprogram can't find it.
amiga-fdisk (fdisk) in Linux should work fine in debian2.2. Did you actually
_format_ the partitions? That should be the next step after partitioning (in
the installer). 

> fdisk lists:
> 
> dev / hda1                Ados
> dev / hda2                Ados
> dev / hda3                Ados
> dev / hda4                LNX Native
> dev / hda5                LNX Swap
> 
> That is correct, according to my structure in HD-toolbox but that is all
> that is working...
> What am I doning wrong ?
Looks good (how did you get this strange df output? It list quite a lot more
usually). However partitioning is not enough, the partitions have to be
formatted. When you partition the disk, you just give a "name" to the
partitions, its no problem to format an ados partitions with the linux ext2
filesystem. If it does not work from your installer (it _should_):
 mke2fs /dev/hda5
 mkswap /dev/hda4
But better do it from within the installer, since it has to mount the
partion to continue.

Christian



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