Re: [gentoo-alpha] fdisk on mini-installer iso

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Thank you

On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 06:54:59PM -0400, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 6:28 PM Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > A few days ago I fired up my UP2000+ Alpha and booted a recent
> > gentoo-alpha installer iso.
> > "install-alpha-minimal-20240328T170423Z.iso". Things seemed to work
> > fine, but I was unable to partition my drive. fdisk complained about
> > missing BSD* partitions. I remember reading something back in the days
> > about broken fdisk on gentoo-alpha installer so I took my old
> > install-alpha.minimal.iso from 2011. With this old installer CD I was
> > able to partition the disk and then continue the installation with the
> > recent mini installer from 2024. Has anyone here recent experience
> > from booting a current mini-install iso?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Magnus Lindholm
> 
> Yes, fdisk has been broken for many years. I believe it broke in v2.23.
> 
> See https://marc.info/?t=143891491000001&r=1&w=4
> 
> Use `parted` instead.
> 
> (parted) mktable bsd
> 
> See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1025044.html for some instructions.