Re: BDI 2.11 and large hard drives.

["Humberto Madero" <hmaderoc-at-sysop.com.mx>]

Dear Andre:

I installed BDI 2.11 in a partition of 18 GBytes, on a disk of 40 Gbytes
with no problem, in other partition of 20 GBytes I installed 
Red Hat 7.2  both partitions work O.K. for me.


Humberto Madero

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andre' Blanchard" <andre_54005-at-yahoo.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <emc-at-nist.gov>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 8:13 AM
Subject: BDI 2.11 and large hard drives.


> 
> Anyone know if BDI 2.11 has a problem with larger hard
> drives?
> The fdisk program from the BDI disk does not seem to
> find the hard drive but fdisk from Red Hat 7.2 does,
> but gives a warning that there are more then 4000 some
> cylinders and that some older versions may not work.
> 
> I can install RH 7.2 just fine but BDI 2.11 will not
> install, it boots up asks a bunch of questions but
> dies with an exception error.  Not trying to get EMC
> and RH7.2 running on the same computer, I just want to
> take a look at EMC.
> 
> Exception Occurred
>     Traceback (innermost last):
>       File "/usr/bin/anaconda",line
>     342, in ?
>         intf,run(todo,test = test)
>       File "/usr/lib/anaconda/test.py",
>     line 1135, in run
>       rc =apply (step[1](),step[2])
>     File "/usr/lib/anaconda/test.py",
>     line 576, in __call__
>         todo.getCompsList ()
>       File "/usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py",
>     line 467, in getCompsList
>         self.comps =
>       self.method,readComps(self.hdList)
>         File "/usr/lib/anaconda/image.py",
>       line 8, in readComps
>         return ComponentSet(self.tree +
>     file://RedHat/base/comps',hdlist)
>       File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py",
>     line 326, in __init__
>         self.readCompsFile(file,
>     self.packages)
>       File"/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py",
>     line 299,in readCompsFile
>         comp.addPackage(packages[1])
>       File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py",
>     line 46,in __getitem__
>       return self.packages[item]
>         KeyError: basesystem
> 
> 
> Andre' B.  andre_54005-at-yahoo.com
> If something cannot be defined, it does not exist.
> Isaac Newton
> 
> 
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