Re: Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))

2015-10-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 07:34:48AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 26 October 2015 05:55:10 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > > In article Gene Heskett > wrote: > > > On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > > > I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did) > >

Re: Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))

2015-10-26 Thread David Wright
Your threading appears to be broken, possibly because you reply to a digest article? I think this was in reply to Message-Id: <201510260331.37495.ghesk...@shentel.net> Quoting Martin Str|mberg (a...@ludd.luth.se): > In article Gene Heskett > wrote: > > On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin

Re: Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))

2015-10-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 26 October 2015 11:34:48 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 26 October 2015 05:55:10 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > In article Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > > On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > > > I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did) > > > > part

Re: Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))

2015-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 26 October 2015 05:55:10 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > In article Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > > I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did) > > > partitions of 200 MB size. I use the text based installer and > > > man

Re: Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))

2015-10-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 26 October 2015 09:55:10 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > In article Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > > I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did) partitions of > > > 200 MB size. I use the text based installer and manual par

Re: Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))

2015-10-26 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did) partitions of > > 200 MB size. I use the text based installer and manual partitioning. > > > On a 4k/sector, 2 terabyte disk? I tried from 500

Re: Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))

2015-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > In article Gene Heskett wrote: > > The worst part of that is that the partitioner will not accept a 1 > > gigabyte partition, which is a great plenty, so I was forced to use > > 5% of the disk as a boot partition. > > I don't understa

Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))

2015-10-25 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article Gene Heskett wrote: > The worst part of that is that the partitioner will not accept a 1 > gigabyte partition, which is a great plenty, so I was forced to use 5% > of the disk as a boot partition. I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did) partitions of 200 MB size. I