Re: fresh squeeze install fails to partition
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Neal Hogan <nealhogan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:14 PM, <briand@aracnet.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:46:55 -0800
>> David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/15/2011 04:43 PM, Neal Hogan wrote:
>>> > My goal was to install the debian GNU/bsd system, but things seemed
>>> > to be messed up. I've tried the mini.iso and full net-iso for both
>>> > the gnu/bsd and gnu/linux system (i386) and no matter what I try it
>>> > fails to partition my drive.
>>> > eg.
>>> > "[!!] Partition disks
>>> > Failed to create a file system
>>> > The ufs file system creation in partition #6 of ATA1 (ad0)
>>> > failed" No matter what option I try, the default, all-in-one
>>> > partition, the seperation /home partition, etc., it doesn't work.
>>
>> is ufs standard now on a fresh install ? have you tried using ext3 ?
>>
>
> I don't know if ufs is the standard, but I didn't choose it.
>
It appears that ufs is the standard. It's definitely the default. I
tried to change the filesystem to ext3, but it wasn't an available
option (ext2, fat*, and swap were the only other options). When I
selected the ext2 system it said that it wasn't a bootable filesystem
and that I needed to change it to ufs.
>> it's very odd that the all-in-one would fail since that basically kills
>> everything on the disk and installs a single partition. that would
>> lead me to believe that the access to your disk is busted, which also
>> seems unlikely.
>>
>
> The failure appears to occur after the root partition. That is, if
> doing the all-in-one thing it fails to create the swap partition . . .
> when doing the seperate-/home thing it fails to creat the /home
> partition.
>
>> when performing the installation you can open a terminal (Alt-F2) and
>> run commands from the command line. if you know how to use fdisk, it
>> may be worth it to try and create the partitions yourself, to see if you
>> can get some more error messages.
>>
>> I'm not sure when the current disk partition tool is for an install,
>> someone please correct me if it's not simply fdisk (cfdisk, maybe ?).
>>
>>
partman?
>
> I'll try. FYI - Access to my disk should be fine since I was able to
> install another OS without issue (the reason I don't stick with that
> OS is due to other issues ;-).
>
fdisk/cfdisk is not a command available at the command line (i.e., #
fdisk <enter> "-/bin/sh: fdisk: not found"
> Thanks,
> -Neal
>
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