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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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