Bug#258352: marked as done (can't partition disk on G5)
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I used .../20040708/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso
and booted with install-power4-2.6
I read somewhere that i should select then Sungem
NIC driver. That worked, because it reverse queried
my DNS for the hostname. BTW it put hostname.domainname
as the default hostname, then asks for the domainname.
There's a problem with partitioning the disks. It seems
like some options are missing from this screen. No
partitions appears. Switching over to another console
i tried to fire up fdisk... i mean mac_fdisk or whatever.
It couldn't find device files. In fact i couldn't find
any device files for disks at all.
Also none of the sata modules were loaded. There's about
6 of them. Don't know which ones to load, so i just loaded
all of them.
And that's where i am. I'm not sure what parameters to
give mknod.
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Brian
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Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 05:51:18 +0100
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: can't partition disk on G5
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On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 05:41:52PM -0700, Brian wrote:
> I read somewhere that i should select then Sungem
> NIC driver. That worked, because it reverse queried
> my DNS for the hostname. BTW it put hostname.domainname
> as the default hostname, then asks for the domainname.
This has been fixed in netcfg 0.72.
> There's a problem with partitioning the disks. It seems
> like some options are missing from this screen. No
> partitions appears. Switching over to another console
> i tried to fire up fdisk... i mean mac_fdisk or whatever.
> It couldn't find device files. In fact i couldn't find
> any device files for disks at all.
>
> Also none of the sata modules were loaded. There's about
> 6 of them. Don't know which ones to load, so i just loaded
> all of them.
There were some problems with the kernel in the initrd and the modules
on the CD being out of sync. These should all have been fixed in current
daily builds for the last couple of weeks. If you still have a problem
with those, of course, please feel free to reopen this bug or file a new
installation report.
Thanks for testing d-i!
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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