RE: Partitioning Disks on DS20

[Lucas De Lamper <Lucas DeLamper digital com>]

John,

I had the same problem on an XP1000, where fdisk didn't see cylinders behind
522....
I got around it by partitioning the disk with another Unix system, although
I understand that is not an easy option for everybody.
A lot of people have reported RH fdisk to be broken, but I haven't seen a
fix yet. If you have a RH5.2 hanging around you can partition your disk by
starting the  RH5.2 install.
(I haven't tried to replace 6.0's fdisk with 5.2's...)

/Lucas



>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: John Helly [mailto:hellyj@SDSC.EDU]
>>Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 1:11 AM
>>To: axp-list@redhat.com
>>Subject: Partitioning Disks on DS20
>>
>>
>>Hi.
>>After struggling to get the system booted under RH6.0, I find 
>>that fdisk
>>does not seem to be functioning properly.  I have been following the
>>instructions from the Compaq ActiveAnswers web site but these 
>>don't seem to
>>work.
>>
>>fdisk appears to create partition extents with cylinder 
>>numbers I do not
>>enter.  For example, if I try to create BSD partition a from 
>>3-50 it does
>>that.  However, if I try to create partition b from 51-1024 
>>it assigns to
>>some inconsistent range.
>>
>>Either fdisk is not working or I am missing something big.
>>Anyone have any ideas?
>>
>>cheers.
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