Question: SuSE 7.3 / fdisk / Ultra 1
Ralph Hellmig <[email protected]>
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Hi ... I tried to install SuSE 7.3 on an old Ultra 1, but I suffer from a problem I found in the suse mailing list archive again and again, even with kind of answers, but they still seem not to help me ... I have two Seagate SCSI HDDs with about 2 GB in that machine, but am new to SCSI architecture and SPARC, but using SUSE on PC starting with 5.2 ... The installation using YAST 2 does not continue after giving me the already famous message: invalid partition table, I have to re-partition ... I tried this using fdisk with the sun disklabel, but after writing the changes are gone ... When I try to do fdisk again, the system seems to get hung, if gives an error message that the block size is not 512 but 1863323648 in case of /dev/sda for /dev/sdb the number is different I tried to use the expert mode in Yast2 to delete the old (corrupted) partition table, the system gets some kind of stalled (pressing ctrl+alt+F4 I can see somethings like: VFS: growth_buffers: size 1863323648)... I found several answers to this kind of problem in the list, but only using the SuSE7.3 Cds I did not find a solution ... I would appreciate any comment which will enlighten me in my stupidity ... Greetings, Ralph -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ralph Hellmig Institut fuer Werkstoffkunde und Werkstofftechnik Agricolastr. 6 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld Tel.: 05323/72-2748 email: [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]