Last night I began upgrading my Debian 1.1 system to 1.3.1. The upgrade came off of InfoMagic's LDR August 1997 release CD's. I read and followed the counsel from the Kernel-HOWTO (v0.80, 26 May 1997) and from Linus Torvalds' README in the top of the source tree (ls -l gave 25 May 1997 as the date), and the notice on upgrading that was under bo on the cd. It seems to me that I did everything by the book.
But things have not turned out happily. make config seemed to go well. make zdisk reported no errors. make modules pooped out at the end. Said there was no more room on the device. Hmmm ... This is bothersome. I should have loads of space. I first noticed this message after upgrading all my packages with dselect. Yes I first upgraded dpkg by hand as instructed. For some reason, dselect installed new stuff as well as upgrading what I already had. I figured the Linux and Deb docs as well as the source tree for several different architectures was eating up all my space. Getting rid of this stuff didn't free up as much space as it should have. Seems that somewhere along the line, my partition table got screwed up. How ? I never touched the partitions. Here is the partitions I had before the upgrade: /dev/hdc1 / ext2 500 Mb /dev/hdc5 /usr/local ext2 500 Mb /dev/hdc6 /home ext2 300 Mb /dev/hdc7 none swap 16 Mb here is the new output from fdisk as captured with the script programme: Script started on Tue Dec 16 19:05:18 1997 humble# fdisk /dev/hdc The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 6136. This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software form other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 7 Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 7 Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 7 Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 6136 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 * 1 1 1016 512032+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc2 1017 1017 2675 836136 5 Extended /dev/hdc5 1017 1017 2032 512032+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc6 1024 2033 2642 307408+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc7 ? 2063 2642 26422147483647+ ff BBT Script done on Tue Dec 16 19:06:03 1997 What went wrong and where do I go from here ? Partitions seem to plague me. I recently came to the list with disappearing partition problems. Just bought a new WD drive and reinstalled because my old one seemed to be going flaky. Now this. Any help appreciated. Gerald Crimp -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
