LBA

2004-04-05 Thread ed
I have a harddisk size of 160GB. I am finding it hard to find a release of Debian that supports 48bit LBA which is what I need to partition this disk so that I can use all of the 160GB available. Currently I can see only 137GB of usable space. I have tried various ISO's, sid included. However, s

Re: LBA

2004-04-05 Thread Julian Florance
I'm using a 160gb disk in Sid right now without any hassles, on an old PII-350mhz/Intel-BX440 mobo. Of course it only yields 157"Gi" due to the good old gigabyte vs gibibyte chestnut, but it's certainly a deal better than 137"Gi". [see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte for more info

Cannot boot with cdrom and LVM

2004-04-05 Thread Jason Martens
I just installed Debian testing on my Dell Latitude C640. I partitioned the hard drive with a 20G vfat partition, a 300M root partition, and a 17G LVM physical partition. I can sucessfully boot the system and mount the volume group and logical volumes when the cdrom is removed from the modula

Re: LBA

2004-04-05 Thread ed
On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 09:14:16 +1000 Julian Florance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using a 160gb disk in Sid right now without any hassles, on an old > PII-350mhz/Intel-BX440 mobo. > > Of course it only yields 157"Gi" due to the good old gigabyte vs > gibibyte chestnut, but it's certainly a dea