On Tuesday 20 January 2015 13:33:43 Lisi Reisz did opine And Gene did reply: > On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:37:30 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 > > Doesn't exist. Do you mean 7.8? And which disk?
Yeah, sorry girl, but typus are the order when I am not happy, as I just destroyed the 2nd wheezy install trying to fix the broken partitioning tools in the installer. They obviously never saw a 4k/sector disk before in their lives. The MBR they left behind when I finally just said godoit, gives any partitioning tool an exedrine headache. > > > install on a disk with 4k sectors, this > > after researching and finding a partitioner utility that DOES know > > about 4k/sector disks. That is gdisk. which found the gparted setup > > and fixed it, all I had to do was write it to the disk., gparted, an > > old version is not capable of aligning things correctly. > > > > So the disk is all partitioned and formatted but empty. > > > > Now I find I cannot bypass the disk partitioner in the installer, nor > > can I force it to use these partitions on the hilited drive This > > is using the installer in "expert" mode. > > Don't bypass it. Use it. Just tell it what you want it to do, and it > will do it. You need at the very least to allocate the partitions. > You don't have to create or format them. Lisi, it will NOT do as I tell it even in the expert mode. It, when I try to get it to do what I want, just loops and keeps asking the same questions over and over. It's broken, pure and simple, has no knowledge of a 4k/sector disk, so it carves up an MBR and partition table so screwed up I doubt it could ever write more than 6M/sec on a 120M/sec disk. gdisk tried to fix it, but wound up wiping it out so bad it cannot now find the drive. GParted, a very old version, can, but its read-only. So it can't even do an e2fsck on any partition the debian installer created. > > > It will not let me change the "do not use" when I hilite a > > partition and > > > > hit enter. It doesn't even acknowledge the mount points "/boot" and > > "/" already set. > > > > This is less than a desirable thing. > > > > How can I both bypass the broken partitioner, AND force it to use the > > partitions it finds on the hilited drive? > > There isn't a problem with the Wheezy partitioner. You can use it or > not as you choose. See my comment above. You cannot NOT use it, it refuses to proceed to the next, format the partitions step. > Sorry, Gene. This really does look like PEBKAC. The partitioner is > fine. No PEBKAC, I've now tried to bypass the installers partitioner 4 times after having set the drive up correctly with tools that do know about 4k/sector drives No its not, it is not even remotely aware of the alignment requirements needed to use a 4k/sector drive at full speed. The drive technology moves on, but those tools are stuck in 2010 maybe? If there is a way, then maybe I'll try it again, but give me step by step I can printout and follow when there is no one in the room, or available via the net. > Lisi Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201501201902.41153.ghesk...@wdtv.com
