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From: John Thompson on 15 Apr 2008 15:44
On 2008-04-15, dave.dex(a)googlemail.com <dave.dex(a)googlemail.com> 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.

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John (john(a)os2.dhs.org)
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