I'm in the middle of dealing with this same issue, I cannot figure out how to partition my IDE drive in a DS20L (that has no floppy; only a CD and an IDE drive). Using SRM... I started with sarge/testing's netboot installer (both minimal and base-system CD images), but learned the hard way it couldn't partition the disk. I used the woody installer and it can autorun fdisk, I create the partition table and reboot with the newest installer and it (partman?) can't deal with the BSD partition table, there doesn't even appear to be a way to skip it. What to do to get a sarge install? > -----Original Message----- > From: Cameron Patrick [mailto:cameron@patrick.wattle.id.au] > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 3:24 AM > To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning > > Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > > | I thought Debian's installer used cfdisk. For more info in > partitioning > | with fdisk: > | > | http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/partition-5.html > > If by "Debian's installer" you mean "boot floppies on i386" then > that's true. It's never been used on alpha -- boot-floppies used > straight fdisk, and debian-installer uses partman (as it does on most > other architectures). > > (boot-floppies is the name of the installer used in woody and previous > distributions. debian-installer is the new installer that will be > used in sarge.) > > Cameron. >
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