On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:46:15PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: > Now, manually partitioning seems to be almost impossible, unless I'm > overcomplicating it. > Note: I have many years of Tru64 4.x and 5.x and linux manually > partitioning of disklabels, I know the bsd and bios differences etc. > etc. Also disklabel=partition table > This XP100 has a compaq scsi disk, so it's using a bsd disklabel. I > don't know if ide drives on these use a dos type bios partition > table.... The choice of partition table type only affects whether the disk can be booted from SRM. > Specifying a manual edit only allows you to set the Size, not the > starting and ending blocks-- so how do I know where sarge is leaving > the empty space-- at the beginning (good) or end (bad)? If you delete the first partition on the disk and re-add it, you should get the choice of whether to add it at the beginning or end of the disk. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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