Hi Wiktor, On Wednesday 27 April 2005 19:39, Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: > And the problem I described with the parted is consistent on the same > machine. I can't get it to display partitions after I select manual > partitioning from its menu. I'm afraid this is user error. You've put swap as the first partition (starting on cylinder 0). This overwrites the sun-disklabel that is written in that location! The result is that parted no longer recognizes the disk during the "second" installation. With sun-disklabel you are not allowed to put swap or RAID or LVM at the start of the disk. ext2/ext3 are OK. See also: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.sparc/apbs05.html#id2538449 Cheers, FJP P.S. If you want fdisk, just switch to VT2, wget the fdisk udeb from a mirror [1] and 'udpkg -i' it. [1] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/util-linux/
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