creating partition for installation - partition creating - order by pertinence

Testing multiple distros on one drive

I'd like to temporarily install and play with a few distros on my box, in addition to my current production distro. I know I shouldn't just point them all to my current /home/user, as each distro may modify config files in ~/ in ways the production ...

Message posted on the July 17th, 2012 - 12:39 PM ET

Bug#684834: installation-guide: FTBFS: Error: unknown language 'el'

Source: installation-guide Version: 20110122 Severity: serious Tags: wheezy sid User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20120814 qa-ftbfs Justification: FTBFS in wheezy on amd64 Hi, During a rebuild of all packages in *wheezy*, your ...

Message posted on the August 14th, 2012 - 3:50 AM ET

[Long] UEFI support

Hash: SHA512 Hello all, UEFI (often called EFI, which was the name of its previous version) is a new firmware interface, which is expected to replace the BIOS on new PCs, as at has already done so on Apple PCs. While modern operating system do not ...

Message posted on the January 6th, 2012 - 9:50 AM ET

Clone 320GB hdd to 512GB SSD, w7 64bit, correct procedure

I would like to check in with people here to see if I am approaching this task in the right way. I have an HP Pavilion DV7 3164cl 64bit laptop with a 320GB hdd, I just purchased a 512GB SSD. I want to clone the C: and hidden restore/repair ...

Message posted on the March 23rd, 2013 - 10:26 PM ET

New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7

I bought a new Toshiba Satellite laptop with Windows 7 installed. The moment I opened it up, it went into its automatic setup procedure and installed Windows 7 from a recovery partition. There weren't many options available during setup (choose ...

Message posted on the February 3rd, 2012 - 2:52 PM ET

Bug#687456: btrfs: Oops when adding a device on a degraded raid1 filesystem

Package: src:linux Version: 3.2.23-1 Severity: grave On a very fresh wheezy install I was able to crash the kernel by playing with btrfs. I am reporting it using a kvm image but I first had the bug on real boxes. To reproduce the bug, I am ...

Message posted on the September 12th, 2012 - 5:30 PM ET

Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

Hello. In investigating a problem to do with the UDF filesystem format, in running the Disk Utility, I found the system hard drive partition table, and have a couple of questions. The first is this; I have some empty partitions for storing data, ...

Message posted on the March 21st, 2012 - 10:00 AM ET

Cannot boot Freestor 4020 (SS-4000E)

It hangs on boot but boots from the console using fis load, exec. There is one disk is inserted which is disk1/4 of what was the RAID5 set. Not sure what to try next to get it to boot on its own. Chris EM-438/EM-7220 ver.AG0 2006-05-23 == ...

Message posted on the July 13th, 2012 - 10:10 AM ET

USB harddisk problem

Hello, I have a serious problem with external usb hard drives and a new debian squeeze on a laptop. The symptoms are What it works: - When I mount a previously an usb hard drive formatted using another computer (linux or windows) the first time ...

Message posted on the April 24th, 2012 - 6:00 PM ET

Bug#656899: may go back to lenny

I am seeing those messages on a lenny system running 2.6.26. Details attached. Script started on Fri 15 Jun 2012 14:12:50 EST foo:~# !sh sh mdadm-details.sh Linux foo 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sun Mar 4 22:19:19 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux mdadm/lenny ...

Message posted on the June 15th, 2012 - 12:40 AM ET

[RFR] templates://partman-zfs/partman-zfs.templates

Please find attached the debconf templates for partman-zfs, the D-I component that will be used to setup ZFS on kFreeBSD systems. These templates are sometimes very similar to partman-lvm templates, but some are brand new and might need the eye ...

Message posted on the August 5th, 2011 - 3:30 AM ET

Bug#675055: xcp-xapi: xe-edit-bootloader does not compatible with new /dev/sm

Package: xcp-xapi Version: 1.3.2-6 Severity: normal Tags: upstream /usr/lib/xcp/bin/xe-edit-bootloader failing with following message: /usr/lib/xcp/bin/xe-edit-bootloader -u 19f66083-e776-70d1-1808-3712688ad138 Creating dom0 VBD: ...

Message posted on the May 29th, 2012 - 11:30 AM ET

Partitioning New Hard Drive

Dell Dimension E521 Win XP SP3 I've just cloned my 250 GB HD, Sector by sector, to a new 500 GB HD using a caddy and EaseUS free. I've removed the old HD and replaced it with the new one and got it up and running. When I go to Disk Management ...

Message posted on the May 9th, 2012 - 2:47 PM ET

Migrating Boot Device fom SCSI to SATA

I am trying to transfer the boot partition from a Windows XP SCSI drive to a RAID 5 SATA volume on an Addonics Compact RAID enclosure. I created a large RAID 5 on the Addonics Compact RAID, and then I used a disk partition management utility to ...

Message posted on the May 6th, 2012 - 4:41 AM ET