On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:54:55PM +0100, Eugenia Franzoni wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Version: 20040120 > I downloaded the Sarge Net installer from > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/20040120/sarge-i386-netinst.iso > The computer I tried it on has 2 disks (hda and hdb). I tried the > installationon hdb. The partitioning went ok, the disk is recognized as > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc (QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM2110A) > - note: it is an old HD on a new controller (VIA > VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C) > So "disk partitioning" went ok. The partition table I created is: > part1 Linux Swap > part2 Linux (bootable) > The problem is that these partitions (either of them) are not included in the > list of the partition in the "configure and mount partitions" step, so I > can't use them for the installation. > Accessing them manually (i.e. mkswap on the first partition and mke2fs on > the second, via the console in F2) was successful. Even after creating > the filesystem, the partitions are not listed in "configure and mount > partitions" Do these partitions overlap in the partition table? Is this a BSD disklabel-using disk (probably not) that has a partition overlapping the beginning of the disk? I've found that libparted is very particular about only working with properly defined partitions. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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