Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 01:03:50PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 20/01/15 09:37 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >Greetings;
> >
> >I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 install on a disk with 4k sectors, this
> >after researching and finding a partitioner utility that DOES know about
> >4k/sector disks. That is gdisk. which found the gparted setup and fixed
> >it, all I had to do was write it to the disk., gparted, an old version is
> >not capable of aligning things correctly.
> >
> >So the disk is all partitioned and formatted but empty.
> >
> >Now I find I cannot bypass the disk partitioner in the installer, nor can
> >I force it to use these partitions on the hilited drive This is using
> >the installer in "expert" mode.
> >
The wheezy installer _ought_ to work with a 4K disk - fdisk will normally work - but ...
> > It will not let me change the "do not use" when I hilite a partition and
> >hit enter. It doesn't even acknowledge the mount points "/boot" and "/"
> >already set.
> >
Tab to the "do not use" and hit enter to allow you to change it. If given the option
you probably should format each partition anyway to clear them.
> >This is less than a desirable thing.
> >
> >How can I both bypass the broken partitioner, AND force it to use the
> >partitions it finds on the hilited drive?
> >
> >
> >Cheers, Gene Heskett
> The installer takes you into the screen to select partitions. All you have
> to do is tell it which partitions to use for what. It will default to
> formatting them, I believe, but you can tell it not to format. It's not that
> user-unfriendly.
>
> GPT partition tables include a legacy partition table so it works with older
> software.
>
> Sorry I've got no screen prints to show you, but if you can figure out how
> to switch the partition from "do not use" to ext4 or whatever file system
> you prefer, the rest should be easy.
>
> None of this is rocket science.
>
>
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