Re: Installer - 3.0-r0 on 250GB HD drives
Hello
Ulf Jaenicke-Rößler (<ujr@debian.org>) wrote:
> somewhat returning to Debian from a long time break I had to install
> (admittedly not current version) 3.0-r0 on a PC with a new 250GB hard
> drive. The harddrive was "pre-partitioned" with a CD of a rescue set
> (rescuecd.sf.net) that is based on Sarge without problems.
> Unfortunately it seems that cfdisk as well as fdisk from 3.0-r0 fail
> on that large disk.
Kernel 2.4.18 does not support LBA48, which is needed to use hard disks
> 128 GB. You need to install using a newer kernel, either by
installing Sarge, or by using a inofficial boot disk with a recent
kernel.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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