From: wolff@zen.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff) Subject: Re: DC600 Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1992 20:28:19 GMT
>In article <716937001snx@hamster.demon.co.uk> hwm@hamster.demon.co.uk writes:
>>
>>I have just tried to install Linux on my machine, but I am having trouble
>>with my hard disk controller (or so it seems). I use a DC600 with four
>>drives altogether, 2x400 MB and 2x200MB with the first two making up a
>>logical 800 MB drive and the latter two another 400 MB. I have set aside an
>>empty 100 MB partition on the end of the first logical drive, and the linux
^^^^^
>>fdisk seems to recognize it more or less correctly. The controller really
>>makes everything look as if there were only two physical drives, which even
>>works with weird stuff like the OS/2-fdisk, so I suspect that this is not
>>the problem. Linux' fdisk also sees some phantom partitions with negative
>>sizes in addition to the real ones. Now when I boot it from A:, the setup
>>process runs just fine up to the stage when it tries to write the root image
>>from the second disk to the HD partition, whatever size I give linux for
>>its partition.
could it be that your "setup program" initializes a minix file system?
Those are limited to 64M. Try splitting the partition up in two parts
for a while and see if that works....
Roger
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