Re: pismo w/fujitsu hard drive

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> I'm attempting to install debian from CD onto a Pismo powerbook with a
> Fujitsu 20gig hard drive. Everything goes fine until one tries to
> initialize. I can create the partition map, but I cannot get fdisk to write
> it on the hard drive. It allows me to "write" the partition, but doesn't
> recognize it after the fact. Do you think this has to do with the Fujitsu
> hard drive? Is there a way to fix or sidestep the problem?

After rebooting, what's in the partition table? What do you get after
doing mac-fdisk -l in the installer?

I've seen read-only hard disks, but not usually brand new ones :-)

	Michael