On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:10:20AM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote: > Hi > > I've repartitioned my PowerMac G4 and partitioned as follows: > > ( 5.0G) Linux native > /dev/hda20 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /var 1024000 @ 52808500 > (500.0M) Linux native > /dev/hda21 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /tmp 3072000 @ 53832500 > ( 1.5G) Linux native > /dev/hda22 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /home 3125932 @ 56904500 > ( 1.5G) Linux native > > I've installed MacOSX on 10, woody on partitions 11-16 and intended to > install sid on partitions 17-22. So far so good ..... woody is installed > and running. > > However, when going through the sid install, it wouldn't initialize > partitions 21 & 22 (/tmp and /home). However it let me mount them and > continue with the install - I figured I could sort them once I'd > installed sid. I've installed sid (base plus a few packages: aptitude, > sudo, vim, exim4 and mutt) but I can't seem to initialise and mount > these two partitions - I tried mke2fs -l /tmp -T ext3 but it didn't > seem to recognise the partition (I've rebooted into woody to write this > and can't remember the error exactly).
The installer only makes devices up to /dev/hda20. To have more partitions, you need to create new devices. From the install manual: As an example, here are commands you can use in tty2 or under Execute A Shell to add a device so the 21st partition can be initialized: cd /dev mknod hda21 b 3 21 chgrp disk hda21 chmod 660 hda21 Booting into the new system will fail unless proper devices are present on the target system. After installing the kernel and modules, execute: cd /target/dev mknod hda21 b 3 21 chgrp disk hda21 chmod 660 hda21 -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
