Re: 8.1 Install - Partitioning problems

I had the same hick up on my 3000 but all it did was come up witha warning message saying that for some unknown reason it could not partition the disk and did I want to continue so I did and it seems to be working fine.

As far as I can tell at the moment! just hdon't have the wild problems getting it to connect to the internet I did on PC when I tried SuSe on that!  

John

 On Thu, 22 May 2003 13:45:54 -0700
"Thompson, James M." <[email protected]> wrote:

> Unfortunately, yes, you will probably have to reboot to re-read your
> partition table.
> 
> Bummer, I know (I have two multia's...with no SCSI CDRom I have to install
> via FTP.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Powell [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 3:38 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [suse-axp] 8.1 Install - Partitioning problems
> 
> 
> Hello, James.
> 
> Firstly, I may have caused some crossed wires.  I'm not trying to
> format from fdisk, I was just using fdisk to see if the partitons were
> created.  I was choosing the fs type from within the drive setup portion
> of Installation Settings, and reiser doesn't show up.
> 
> At one point, fdisk did tell me something to the effect of "Kernel is
> using old partition table, you'll need to reboot."  At this point, I'm
> thinking I should probably reboot, but it took so long to copy the stuff
> from FTP to the ramdisk earlier that I was hoping to not have to go
> through that again.  But I will if I have to.
> 
> By the way, I also got the following error after following your
> advice:
> 
> / # mkreiserfs /dev/rd/c0d0p4
> mkreiserfs 3.6.2 (2002)
> 
> count_blocks: open failed (no such device or address)
> 
> 
> Aborted
> / #
> 
> So, for some reason (maybe the fact I haven't rebooted yet) I can't
> format my partitions.
> 
> Stuart.
> 
> >>> "Thompson, James M." <[email protected]> 05/22/03
> 03:22PM >>>
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Powell [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 3:05 PM
> To: [email protected] 
> Subject: [suse-axp] 8.1 Install - Partitioning problems
> 
> 
> Hello, everyone.
> 
> If you've been following along this morning you'll know I'm trying to
> get an old AlphaServer 1000 running with SuSE 8.1.  With a little help
> I
> have managed to get it to boot up from the CD, and connect to the FTP
> server.  It has got to the point where I am sorting out the
> installation
> settings.  Everything looks good, but when I proceed past this point,
> it
> seems unable to format the partitions.
> 
> I have set the partitions up thus:
> 
> /boot - 100MB (I know it doesn't NEED to be this big)
> swap - 384MB (RAM is 192MB)
> / - everything else, approx. 11GB
> 
> If I move over to a second console prompt and launch fdisk, it shows
> the partitions are there.  Does anyone know why I can't format them ? 
> I
> am trying to use ext2 for /boot and ext3 for / since reiser is not an
> option in the list of fs types.
> 
> Thanks,
> Stuart.
> --------------------------
> 
> What did you mean by "list of fs types"?  Did you mean the list in
> fdisk?
> If so, that is not where you format for Reiserfs...
> 
> Go ahead and create the partition as type Linux (82 iirc), and after
> writing
> the partition table, execute "mkreiserfs /dev/partition" from the
> command
> line.
> 
> Mitch
> 


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