Re: Suse 7.3 on SunSparc 20

[email protected] wrote:
> There seems to be a Solaris Partition on both 1GB Harddisks, which i cannot
> remove with Suse 7.3 installer. Suse will abort with an error message like
> "can't create partition" or something like that.
> 
> anyone else had similar problems with suse on a sparc 20 which had a solaris
> OS on it?

I had similar problems with a SparcStation 5, with a disk without any
partition table.

It wasn't possible to partition it using the SuSE 7.3 install program
(even erasing and rereading the partition table didn't help). The only
way i found was to fdisk the drive manually.
If you install over a serial console where you can't switch the virtual
console to get a shell, the only way i found was to remove the disk and
mount it on another computer.

After that i just read the existing partition table in the install
program and everything went fine.

hth

/Martin

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