Re: Pre partitioned ext2 usb disk appears as fat32 by the debian installer

On 2008-04-15, dave.dex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <dave.dex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm trying to set up my NSLU2 with an 8GB USB drive as the main disk.
I've been following http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/install.html
however I have an issue.

To prevent having the nslu2 perform the partitioning I've done this on
my laptop using a live cd (fdisk, swapon, mke2fs, etc). When the
debian installer gets to do the partition it sees the 8Gb drive as a
fat32 drive with no partitions so I cannot tell the installer to use
it.

Can anyone help point me in the right direction? I'm a little lost.

What does "fdisk -l /dev/[whatever]" tell you about the drive? If
there's no data on the drive, you can start fresh by writting a new,
empty partition table (use the "o" command from inside fdisk) and
creating the partitions you need there.

--

John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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