Re: Starter problems with partitioning the harddrive

I also had this problem when I built some SS5 machines. I got around it
by aborting the install mid-stream and formatting the drives by hand
(mke2fs or mkreiserfs) and then restarting the install. Probably
there is a more elegant approach but it worked for me. Never could get
yast2 to do this properly.

BTW: I also had a number of other problems with yast2. I found the best
approach is to use yast2 to do the minimum install and afterwards to use
yast to upgarde the base install according to my taste.

Good luck.

Michael

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:26:10 +0200
[email protected] wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I've got a pretty cheap Sparc5 170 which runs proper with Solaris 8.
> 
> It is equipped with
> - 18GB HD internal
> - CD-ROM Drive
> - 2nd Ethernet
> - 21" Monitor (stolen from our CAD-System;-)
> 
> Now I wont that thing to lear linux (perhaps I should do it also;-)
> but by using yast2.
> 
> After teaching the root passwd and a new user yast2 starts to prepare
> the sda (the one and only hd).
> It seems to start the preparing of the disk but after a while (appr.
> 2min) there's shown a message that fdisk is'nt able to partition the
> hd.
> 
> Everything is done by using the defaults without loading any modules 
> manually.
> I think I'm basicly wrong by doing erverything with the default
> values?!
> 
> Any ideas would be very welcome.
> 
> Regards
> Peter Josten