Re: [TCLUG:10032] REDHAT 6.1 <arrgggh>

[Ben Beuchler <insyte@ender.squad51.net>]

Is this an standard IDE drive with a modern IDE controller?  I'm really
reaching here, but I've never had a problem partitioning anything unless
it was a bizarre interface w/ poorly supported drivers.

Ben

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> >Run 'sndconfig' as root. Should auto-detect your sound.  :)
>         ok. will do. it was 1:00am when I finally went to bed so I wasn't in
> the mood for trying too much. :)
> 
> actually, the part that really bugged me (I guess I just put it out of my
> mind when griping before); was the disk partitioning.
>         trying to partition a bare drive (brand new); the partitioner
> refused to make the first partition. would always say 'allocation failed' or
> something like that.
>         so i booted w/ a tomsrtbt disk; and command-line fdisk'ed it. then
> booted the RH install again. thing is, the partition I had made, would show
> up as about half the size i had set before. I made a 10MB partition; and RH
> recognized it as 4MB. a 200MB partition showed up as 98MB. if i deleted this
> partition; the RH partitioner would again refuse to build a first partition
> on the disk; still giving no useful error message. ;(
> 
> anyone know what happened there?
> 
> Carl.
> 
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