Problems with x86 installation

[Bob Van Cleef]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Michal Moskal wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 01:38:49PM -0700, Bob Van Cleef wrote:
> > 
[snip]
> > Second problem - I tried to customize the partitioning.  I selected
> > the following partitions in the installation setup program.
> > 	1	/boot		10M
> > 	2	/		20%
> > 	3	swap		300M
> > 	4	/altboot	20%
> > 	5	/s1		100% of remaining
> > 
> > I saw the following while running the batch installation script.
> > 
> > running parted -s /dev/hda mkpart logical ext2 7947.160 19092.859
> > Error: Invalid argument during seek for write on /dev/hda
> 
> Maybe try 99% for /s1? This is possibly bug in parted.
> 
> > parted print
> > 
> > 	 ... 0.000 - 19092.937
> > 	1     .031 -     7.844	ext2
> > 	2    7.844 -  3827....  ext2
> > 	3 3827.... -  4126....
> > 	4 4126.... - 19092.... extended
> > 	5 4126.... -  7946.... logical
> > 
> > I attempted to run parted manually and got the same error.
> 
> Could you show fraction from extended partiton? Maybe it took
> some space, and therefore it is impossible to make partion
> till the exact end of the disk...

When I attempted to create the fifth partition manually, I tried
a variety of different numbers, tweaking both the starting number
from 7947.160 to 8000 and the ending number from 19092.859 to 18000.
It's more like it doesn't like adding the sixth partition.

Bob
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