[cAos-devel] System Imager

[Nick R]

Maybe this will help: http://www.ntfs.com/partition-deleted.htm

Nick

On 27/02/07, Martyn <martyn at theendofhistether.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Michael Jennings wrote:
> > I have ISO's which have done successful installs under qemu, but I'm
> > holding off on calling them "2.3" until I can put the 2.6.20.x kernel
> > on there.
> >
> And let's try and get some clarification on why greg doesn't trust
> /proc/partitions.
>
> Greg: in scan_partitions of cinch, you're using fdisk to clarify if a
> partition is real by looking for "no valid".... unfortunately if there
> has been an extended partition at the block where the partition starts,
> there is a valid partition table.   Also on some winXP installs, there
> seems to be a backup of the partition table in the first block of the
> NTFS partition, so to install on these, I have had to dd if=/dev/zero
> of=/dev/hda1....
>
> That's not really a sensible way to get cinch to see the partitions to
> install to.  Also, my preference is not to create extended partitions
> unless they're needed, so for the base 4-partition scheme for cAos-2, I
> would prefer to see hda1-4 not hda1-3 and 5!
> > I guess I could post them as pre-release ISO's if folks want to test
> > them, though...
> >
> Well, I'm not so desperate, but maybe others are :-)
> > Michael
> >
> --
> Martyn (Joran)
>
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