Jowls
11-26-2003, 08:12 PM
Just attempted a Woody install, but Debian totally refused to accept my 200 Gbyte Maxtor HD as more than 137 Gbytes. The disk was partitioned by another Linux distro already, but when I got to the Debian partitioning, it served me an error message (something like "partition ends after end of disk", or something along that line).
It gratiously offered me to discard the partition table and create a new one. And that one was 137 Gbytes.
My mobo is fairly new, so the BIOS has no problem recognizing the disk correctly as a 200 GBytes. Neither has Fedora, Mandrake or even SourceMage. So why does Debian insist on reducing it to a 137 Gbyes?
If anybody has an idea of whats going on here, I would be most gratefull for a hint... or two... or ten :-)
regards,
J
It gratiously offered me to discard the partition table and create a new one. And that one was 137 Gbytes.
My mobo is fairly new, so the BIOS has no problem recognizing the disk correctly as a 200 GBytes. Neither has Fedora, Mandrake or even SourceMage. So why does Debian insist on reducing it to a 137 Gbyes?
If anybody has an idea of whats going on here, I would be most gratefull for a hint... or two... or ten :-)
regards,
J