Subject: Bug#3892: mkfs.ext2: can't resolve symbol 'llseek'

From: Paul Traina <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:39:17 -0700

I tried to install Debian 1.1 for the first time and when I made a 3.8gb
/usr partition, I received the following message and it refused to install.
I dropped back to an 800mb /usr partition and everything is cool.

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From: Michael Alan Dorman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 08:44:02 -0400

>I dropped back to an 800mb /usr partition and everything is cool.

This bug was reported against the install disks some time ago (I know,
I was the one reporting it).  The problem is that the stripped down
libc used on the install disks doesn't include llseek, which is
required for formatting partitions more than 1GB or so.

This should be tres easy to fix.  It's a problem with libc5-pic.

Mike.
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From: Chris Fearnley <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 17:40:33 -0400 (EDT)

'Paul Traina wrote:'
>I dropped back to an 800mb /usr partition and everything is cool.

I believe this problem only exists on the boot disks.  You might try
making a small / and /usr partition and then making a large /usr/local
or somesuch partition after you boot from the hard disk.

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