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Topic: DSL 0.7.2 HD install no workie, cfdisk can't see HD

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UnDude

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Posted: Aug. 14 2004,03:28

Well, guess what? I downloaded, burned, and booted DSL 0.7.3 and I get the exact same results when trying to do a HD install. Grrrrr...

After playing with DSL, I booted a DOS floppy with Norton Disk Editor and took a peek at all the HD's partition tables, but I didn't see anything unusual in there.

Any ideas, anyone?

roberts

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Posted: Aug. 14 2004,06:15

First you say:

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hdb7 = 604.0 MB, Ext2, DSL-ready
Sectors 12,434,373 to 13,671,314 (CHS 774-1-1 to 850-254-63)

Yet what you really have is:

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Finally, I type "sudo fdisk -l" and get:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 39 313236 6 FAT16
/dev/hdb2 40 851 6522390 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 * 40 710 5389776 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hdb6 ? 106306 176659 565108754+ 66 Unknown

Where is the type 83 "linux" partition that dsl-install is looking for?

UnDude

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Posted: Aug. 14 2004,16:43

Where is hdb7?

Both Partition Magic and Norton Disk Editor see it just fine, and show it as type 83.

In DSL, emelfm also sees it just fine -- I can mount, unmount, read, and write to it.

fdisk does *not* see it and returns goofy info for hdb6, as you have seen.

cfdisk refuses to see hdb at all.

Go figure.

ckam2
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Posted: Aug. 14 2004,17:10

getting a simillar problem as undude.

nucpc

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Posted: Aug. 14 2004,21:37

UnDude, ckam2,

Had exactly the same trouble. `fdisk' didn't like my `too far for it' extended disk at all
and refused to acknowledge them (crashing the install script). In the end, when I reduced
my number of partitions (so that the disk wasn't extended anymore) I could get it to work.

UnDude - you seem on top of your game so you might consider editing the
dsl-install script; commenting out the fdisk checking lines....if you're sure you've got the
partition and you can write to it (which it looks like you have and can do) then there
shouldn't be a problem. Nine lines to comment out from FDISK="$(fdisk -l /dev/$DISK...
The variable is never used anywhere else.

I however never tried this, I just reduced my number of partitions instead.

All the best.

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