Re: (newbee alert) cant save changes to edited scripts.
> that this is related to fdisk. i used the s option and made it whole drive.
> i then partitioned the sdb as sdb1 sdb2 sdb3, with ext2 partitions. they
> mount fine.
If I have understood well your description, you have correctly created the
"whole disk" /dev/sdb3 partition on sdb.
What is wrong is that the /dev/sdb3 partition must NOT be formatted!
To properly partition your hd, you should:
1. Run fdisk. Press "s". This creates 3 partitions: /dev/sdb1 (type:
ext2), /dev/sdb2 (type: swap), and /dev/sdb3 (type: whole disk).
2. Now you can alter your partition table, add new partitions, move or
resize them (of course, to do so, you must first delete /dev/sdb1 and/or
/dev/sdb2 and then create new partitions of the desired size).
However, never, never touch /dev/sdb3!
3. If you add new partitions, they will be /dev/sdb4, /dev/sdb5, etc.
> a peer of mine (very MCSE but working to change) suggested that i fdisk with
> a different disty (like redhat) then put debian on the existing partitions
> from that fdisk. the reason he said this is from his experience(small) of
> having debian fdisk bork on sparc.
Your MCSE peer is wrong. This is Linux, not Windows!
> another peer (heavy *nix experience)
> said just put redhat on it and be done, i refrained from smacking him.
Redhat has been on my first Sparc just one day! And it was more than
enough... :-)))
Bye
Sabino
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