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patrickbores Apprentice
Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 276 Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:21 pm Post subject: Ultra 5 8GB limitation |
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I know there's an answer for this out there but I haven't been able to find it. I'm trying to reinstall Gentoo on my Ultra 5. I've got a 40GB hard drive, but fdisk shows it as an 8GB hard drive. I had this working before. What could I be missing?
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Patrick _________________ P.S. - this is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated. |
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GenTimJS Guru
Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 406 Location: NH, USA
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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Your disk label is likely FUBAR....
use fdisk to re-label the disk with the correct cyls, hds, etc ...
you may have to poke google for the specs on your drive _________________ -Tim Smith |
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patrickbores Apprentice
Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 276 Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 9:53 am Post subject: |
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It turned out that if I partitioned the drive on a PC first, then hooked it up to the Ultra 5, fdisk would see all of it. I don't get why this works. I would think that the little-endian/big-endian thing would cause trouble, but it works.
Thanks,
Patrick _________________ P.S. - this is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated. |
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Mark Clegg Apprentice
Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 270 Location: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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But wont the disk now have a DOS partition table on it instead of a SUN DiskLabel?
Is that what you really want? |
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patrickbores Apprentice
Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 276 Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, but you can rewrite the sun disk label by using the "s" option in fdisk.
Patrick _________________ P.S. - this is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated. |
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