Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:43:48 Andrew M.A. Cater did opine
And Gene did reply:
> 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 work, poorly, giving ass-aligned disk that will be slow, or
slower.
>
> > > 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.
Tried that, no popup, or other effect other than a screen redraw.
>
> 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.
No, but I'd say its on a par with Apollo 13. :)
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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