Re: disk size mismatch issue during install on ultra1
I had an issue similar to this one when installing on an Ultra 2 with a
similar setup.
I found I could get around the problem by selecting the execute a shell
option in the debian installer, then running parted on the disk
manually.
One thing I cannot remember that you will need to find out in order to
do this is the proper device name for your disks. The name convention
used by the installer kernel is really bizarre and I do not understand
how it works.
Hopefully the D-I people on this list will be able to explain what
device names your disks might be using, or you can reverse engineer it
from the install screens.
--- Ardo van Rangelrooij <ardo@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got an interesting issue with installing sarge on an ultra1: At
> the
> beginning of the partitioning the 9GB HD's are detected correctly as
> having
> 9GB. However, when configuring the 1st partition as 4GB, the
> partition size
> is reported as 2GB in the partition info screen. When I continue
> there's
> only some 27MB left. When using guided partitioning I get similar
> results
> (1.9GB + 99MB) and the partitioning even fails with an error message
> stating
> that there are too many primary partitions.
>
> I'm using the netboot from April 24 and both 2.4 and 2.6 fail. Older
> netboots
> (e.g. rc3) also fail here. The ultra1 has OBP v3.35 and probe-scsi
> detects
> the HD's correctly. It has 256MB memory.
>
> Any thoughts/hints/help how to get across this hurdle? I looked
> through the
> bug reports for d-i but didn't find anything about this issue.
>
> Thanks,
> Ardo
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