Re: Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))
On Monday 26 October 2015 05:55:10 Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> In article <qnKxQ-5oC-13@gated-at.bofh.it> Gene Heskett
<gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> > > I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did)
> > > partitions of 200 MB size. I use the text based installer and
> > > manual partitioning.
> >
> > On a 4k/sector, 2 terabyte disk? I tried from 500m to 2g, it would
> > not accept it. Finally I said to use 5% of the disk, and that
> > worked. Since
>
> Mmm... Lately, usually the installation is onto an SDD, so lately no.
>
> But earlier I'm quite sure I've done that. That should be around/with
> Debian 6 and then probably not 4k/sector disk.
>
> But some SDD has claimed 4k/sector physical block size (but then again
> they are not 2TB).
>
> Frankly, I don't see what the 4k/sector physical block size has to do
> with it.
>
> > > Supposing your variant of installer can't, then why don't you boot
> > > a live CD/stick and partition the hard drive before any booting
> > > the installer and then you should be able to tell the installer to
> > > just use the partitions without any repartitioning.
> >
> > The key phrase is "should be able to tell it to use what it finds",
> > applying only mount point labels. I have not been allowed to do so
> > by any linux installer over the last 7 or 8 years. That limitation
> > has
>
> Again I don't understand why you can't. I have done that successfully
> too.
>
> > Thats also when I parted company with fedora, forever. I was tired
> > of being one of their development lab rats. Always something broken,
> > screw it.
>
> ??? I'm talking about Debian.
I am too, now. And with that one caveat re the new big disks, debian's
installer has Just Worked(TM)
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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