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by jcouzens
Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:26 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Unable to create swap partition (disk too small?)
Replies: 2
Views: 3542

Scratch that, the install may FINISH fine but it by no means finishes. I'm left with mce.tgz in hda2 which appears to be slated to be mounted as /boot by its contents. mce.tgz is never unpacked, and neither is an initrc etc.. This might be because Gentoox MCE was unable to "flash my bios" ...
by jcouzens
Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:26 pm
Forum: Requests
Topic: It should come with VI stock damnit!
Replies: 11
Views: 20256

It should come with VI stock damnit!

I was shocked after installing GentooX Home to NOT find a copy of VI. I felt like naked and alone I didn't know what to do. Please rectify this. No Linux is complete without it. You don't have to go all out with vim, just gold ole vi will suffice.

Keep up the great work.
by jcouzens
Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:24 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Unable to create swap partition (disk too small?)
Replies: 2
Views: 3542

Unable to create swap partition (disk too small?)

I got the "unable to create swap partition" on my xbox 1.0 w/ SmartXX chip loading Gentoox Loader 4.6 and MCE 1.0 off a DVD. My xbox has a 8GB drive. My other xbox which has a 10GB drive and Cromwell bios gets the error "Unable to create root partition". When I swap out the small...
by jcouzens
Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:13 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Unable to create swap partition
Replies: 8
Views: 15977

This happens to me and I am using two separate x-box 1.0 versions with 6GB and 10GB drives respectively. The 8GB one gives me the swap error. The 10GB one gives me an "unable to create root partition" error. I popped in a 20GB drive and then the installer worked fine. So it looks like the ...