Re: Installer showing way too much free space
On 11 Apr, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:08:44PM -0600, joejoe99@softhome.net wrote:
>> When I go to "Partition Hard Drive", from the 3.0 .iso image, the
>> default number of blocks is:
>>
>> <quote>
>> size of 'device' is 1073741825 blocks:
>> <endquote>
>>
>> This suggests that I have 512.0G of Free Space -
>
[snip]
> unless perhaps that was one of the bugs fixed in pdisk since Debian
> forked it. Actually, it might be nice to find out if that's the
> case;
There used to be a bug in mac-fdisk getting the device block count
wrong. It is fixed now, but I have no idea since when. mac-fdisk's bug
page shows nothing...
Cheers
Michel
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