Am Mittwoch, 22. September 2004 11:17 schrieb Hendrik Sattler:
> 1. Older BIOS on sparc cannot boot beyond the first GB. SILO knows this but
> partman doesn't. Thus, there MUST be a /boot partition on the first GB of
> the disk. Automatic partitioning does not know this, yet, maybe it should
> ask (it's like the same problem on i386 before lilo had the lba32 option).
Ok, that easy with manual partitioning.
> 2. I somehow remember that there was a primary partition 3 that had the
> full disk size like seen here:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2001/10/msg00033.html
> Again, automatic partitioning does not know this!
I cannot even choose this partition type, HELP!
> 4. The automatic partitioning configured 223,7MB swap space. That's hardly
> enough to even try swsusp! Swap space must be at least the size of the
> installed RAM (for me 512MB even if the drive only has 4,5GB).
> If I keep within 512MB, I can try swsusp (or whatever, Solaris8 can do STD
> just fine, not sure about linux).
When creating a partition, I choose "512 MB" as size. However, this creates
only a partition with 510,3 MB. Should the chosen size be like "this size or
if necessary a little bit bigger"? What is the advantage over manually trying
with fdisk itself?
> Automatic partitioning is currently unusable on such a system.
Debian-installer is currently UNUSABLE on this system. I cannot set the
partition type manually, thus not creating "whole disk partition" (also
because I can never really select low level manual values).
Should I really boot a woody CD to partition and then the sarge CD to install?
HS
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