Attempting to install 13.1 to a External HDD, cfdisk stops it.
Hello gents, I've been looking into Slackware for a while now, and I've finally built up the courage to ditch Ubuntu for it. I want to install to a 320gb external HDD, and I've cleared up some space (93gb for Slack') and i've been trying to use cfdisk on it to format it to ext3, but every time I attempt to load it up, it give me this message: "Partition 3 " (that's my NTFS for Windows 7 on my main HDD) "ends on a partial cylinder!". Because of that, I can't continue.
Mind helping me out? ~hunterm |
I ran into that issue the other day. I had a bootable Ubuntu disk laying around and created the needed partitions with GParted and it seemed to fix it.
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Hi,
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Do you have free space available? If not then use the M$ tools to shrink the partition. You could use a LiveCD with 'parted' or the like to perform the actions. You would use 'cfdisk '/dev/your_device' to create partition(s) not format. That action after the partition is created by the use of 'fdisk' or 'cfdisk' would be performed with the front end 'mkfs'. Quote:
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Also, I forgot to say but, I've also tried using my main hdd as that is the one I wish to use most to install it on. When I do cfdisk on Slackware's disk, it tells me that Partiton 3 (ntfs windows drive) ends on a partial cylinder, and it won't continue. I'd like to skip that and format over my current Ubuntu drive, but I can't because of that, how can I fix that?
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