Re: Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 07:34:48AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.
>
> I am too, now. And with that one caveat re the new big disks, debian's
> installer has Just Worked(TM)
Are you sure its not a 4k/sector internal but with a 512MB interface? I
know there was some discussion on the NetBSD list. I think your gripe
was about performance, if I remember correctly --- not that you couldn't
actually partition it.
Ignore this post if I'm barking up the wrong tree. :)
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