Pre partitioned ext2 usb disk appears as fat32 by the debian installer
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From: dave.dex on 15 Apr 2008 03:34 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. Thanks in advance Dave
From: Stefan Patric on 15 Apr 2008 12:50 On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:34:10 -0700, dave.dex 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. > Thanks in advance > Dave Without knowing exactly what you did to partition the USB drive--you didn't elaborate--I can only guess: It looks like when you used fdisk to do the partitioning, you didn't save the changes; that is, you hit "q" to quit, which doesn't save any changes, instead of "w" which writes the changes to the drive, then quits. Also, when you create a partition in fdisk you also need to set the partition "type": 83 is Linux, and 82 is Linux swap, IIRC. Stef
From: dave.dex on 19 Apr 2008 08:29
On Apr 16, 3:44 am, John Thompson <j...(a)vector.os2.dhs.org> wrote: > On 2008-04-15, dave....(a)googlemail.com <dave....(a)googlemail.com> 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...(a)os2.dhs.org) 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. |