Debian bug report logs - #1064 cfdisk problems with large drive Package: (base) ; Reported by: andrew@kryten.it.com.au (Andrew Howell); 124 days old . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bug reassigned from package `base' to `(base)'. Request was from imurdock@debian.org (Ian Murdock) to debian-bugs-request@pixar.com . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From kryten.it.com.au!andrew Thu Jun 29 08:40:47 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sRLhu-0005z9C; Thu, 29 Jun 95 08:40 PDT Received: from kryten.it.com.au by pixar.com with SMTP id AA04116 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 29 Jun 1995 08:39:12 -0700 Received: by kryten.it.com.au id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.32); Thu, 29 Jun 95 23:40 WST Message-Id: From: andrew@kryten.it.com.au (Andrew Howell) Subject: cfdisk problems with large drive To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 23:40:30 +0800 (WST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP2] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 771 Package: base Version: R5 We just bought a 4.3 gig quantum grandprix scsi II drive and were installing debian on it but we ran into some trouble using cfdisk on it It would give an error when we made more than 8 partitions and tried writing the partition table. We worked around this by going to a shell and using fdisk instead. Andrew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dehydration - 34%, Recollection of previous evening - 2%, embarrassment factor - 91%. Advise repair schedule:- off line for 36 hours, re-boot startup disk, and replace head - wow, what a night! -- Kryten in Red Dwarf `The Last Day' Andrew Howell andrew@it.com.au Perth, Western Australia howellaa@cs.curtin.edu.au ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to andrew@kryten.it.com.au (Andrew Howell) : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1064 ; Package base . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov