Hi Gunnar,
Thanks a lot for you report and investigations. I think that now I
have enough information to fix the installer for Sun disk labels.
1. Linux and parted support up to 7 partitions (8 with the whole disk
partition). Indeed, this is not going to be changed.
2. However the problem i
...Searching a bit further on how this is done in OpenBSD, I found
something. First of all, I must note that -by a long shot- I am no C
hacker, I can somehow understand parts of code, but that's about it.
NetBSD does support 16 partitions per Sun disklabel, as told in the
message I quoted in a pr
Ummm...
About the partitions limit: I found this in fdisk/fdisksunlabel.h (in
source package util-linux):
typedef struct {
/* (... Many parameters before it) */
struct sun_partition {
uint32_t start_cylinder;
uint32_t num_sectors;
} partitions[8];
unsigned short m
Anton Zinoviev dijo [Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:55:41AM +0200]:
> > - Partitioning: The system has 4x36.4GB hard disks, I decided to install
> > only in the fourth disk. If I ask the installer to 'Create new
> > partition' and accept the default (36.4GB) value, I get immediately
> > two error me
On 9.III.2004 at 19:30 Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>
> - Partitioning: The system has 4x36.4GB hard disks, I decided to install
> only in the fourth disk. If I ask the installer to 'Create new
> partition' and accept the default (36.4GB) value, I get immediately
> two error messages saying "ERROR!!!
Package: installation-reports
Version: 20040309
Severity: normal
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 2004-03-09,
http://people.debian.org/~jbailey//d-i/sparc/daily/cdrom-mini.iso
uname -a: Linux refri 2.4.24-refri #1 SMP Fri Jan 16 14:06:22 CST 2004 sparc64
GNU/Linux
Date: 2004-03-09
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