Re: Pre partitioned ext2 usb disk appears as fat32 by the debian installer
- From: dave.dex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:29:55 -0700 (PDT)
On Apr 16, 3:44 am, John Thompson <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2008-04-15, dave....@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <dave....@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm trying to set up my NSLU2 with an 8GB USB drive as the main disk.
I've been followinghttp://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 (j...@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Thanks for the help. I did make sure I wrote the partitions and when I
re-insert the drive into another linux box it appears to be correctly
mount the partitions as I've made them. If I list the partitions using
fdisk it displays them correctly. I'll post the exact output in a
moment.
.
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