Several varieties of partitioning programs have been adapted by Debian developers to work on various types of hard disks and computer architectures. Following is a list of the program(s) applicable for your architecture.
Recommended partitioning tool in Debian. This swiss army knife can also resize partitions, create filesystems and assign them to the mountpoints.
S/390 version of fdisk; Please read the fdasd manual page or chapter 13 in Device Drivers and Installation Commands for details.
One of these programs will be run by default when you select . If the one which is run by default isn't the one you want, quit the partitioner, go to the shell (tty2) by pressing Alt and F2 keys together, and manually type in the name of the program you want to use (and arguments, if any). Then skip the step in debian-installer and continue to the next step.
If you will be working with more than 20 partitions on your ide disk, you will need to create devices for partitions 21 and beyond. The next step of initializing the partition will fail unless a proper device is present. As an example, here are commands you can use in tty2 or under Execute A Shell to add a device so the 21st partition can be initialized:
# cd /dev # mknod hda21 b 3 21 # chgrp disk hda21 # chmod 660 hda21 |
Booting into the new system will fail unless proper devices are present on the target system. After installing the kernel and modules, execute:
# cd /target/dev # mknod hda21 b 3 21 # chgrp disk hda21 # chmod 660 hda21 |