On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:53:23 +0100, Ulf Jaenicke-Rößler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > somewhat returning to Debian from a long time break I had to install > (admittedly not current version) 3.0-r0 on a PC with a new 250GB hard > drive. The harddrive was "pre-partitioned" with a CD of a rescue set > (rescuecd.sf.net) that is based on Sarge without problems. > Unfortunately it seems that cfdisk as well as fdisk from 3.0-r0 fail on > that large disk. cfdisks says the first partition is larger than the > drive, fdisk says it cannot access the disk. Furthermore I cannot select > the pre-partitioned swap partition in the installer. > When I looked into dmesg, I realized that the kernel detected the hard > disk as 128GB disk with wrong geometry. So I booted the kernel with > correct hda geometry, which is shown correctly in dmesg. However the > disk is still reported as 128GB disk. > Finally I tried the bf24 kernel without any change. > > Is this a famous problem with 3.0-r0? Is it corrected in later versions > of 3.0? Or will I have to wait for sarge? > I would also be grateful for a link or hint how to download and use the > current installer - this would be a great time to help testing. > Is the current snapshot of testing already bootable? >
It's the first result on a Google search: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ You should find all the information you need. Andrea
