Re: fdisk on mini-installer iso

APK <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Apr 2024 07:57:41 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.alpha
Message-ID <ZhfeRRkPMY7Z840Y@thinkpad>
Hi,

Had a similar problem about 2 years ago. This is an old problem. I did
the same work around that you used. 

APK

On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 12:28:06AM +0200, Magnus Lindholm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A few days ago I fired up my UP2000+ Alpha and booted a recent
> gentoo-alpha installer iso.
> "install-alpha-minimal-20240328T170423Z.iso". Things seemed to work
> fine, but I was unable to partition my drive. fdisk complained about
> missing BSD* partitions. I remember reading something back in the days
> about broken fdisk on gentoo-alpha installer so I took my old
> install-alpha.minimal.iso from 2011. With this old installer CD I was
> able to partition the disk and then continue the installation with the
> recent mini installer from 2024. Has anyone here recent experience
> from booting a current mini-install iso?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Magnus Lindholm