partitioning again

[Matthias Lechner]

Hi there!
After some research I finally found a way to achieve the following fantastic 
disk-layout:
                              hde1  FAT16  DOS  
                              hde2  NTFS   WinNT
                              hde3  NTFS   Data&Programs
Remember? The idea was to get FAI into a new, extended partition after hde3. I 
tried to do that now with the following disk_config:

disk_config hde
primary    /mnt/dos    preserve1   rw
primary          -          preserve2
primary         -           preserve3
logical         /             70-15000    rw,errors=remount-ro  ;-c -j ext3
logical      swap          40-500       rw

But with this I get a strange output (see format.log at the end of this mail). 
Installation is aborting with the known errors (cp: cannot stat 
`/tmp/fai/disk_var.sh': No such file or directory....). If you google for the 
sfdisk error, you'll only find problems with the C/H/S settings of the 
harddisk. But, as you can see below, no such error appears.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance
mat.

############FORMAT.LOG:##################

FAI: setup harddisks V0.32fai
Probing disks:  /dev/hde
Disks found: hde

parsing config file: /fai/disk_config/SMALL_IDE

Partition with sfdisk:
LC_ALL=C sfdisk -q  /dev/hde < /tmp/fai/partition.hde

sfdisk: I don't like these partitions - nothing changed.
(If you really want this, use the --force option.)

SFDISK ERROR:
 
Disk /dev/hde: 10011 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Old situation:
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hde1   *      0+    259     260-   2088418+   6  FAT16
/dev/hde2        260+    777     518-   4160803+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hde3        778    1414     637    5116702+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hde4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
New situation:
Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot    Start       End   #sectors  Id  System
/dev/hde1            63   4176899    4176837   6  FAT16
/dev/hde2       4176963  12498569    8321607   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hde3      12498570  22731974   10233405   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hde4      22731975  54492479   31760505   5  Extended
/dev/hde5   *  22732038  53464319   30732282  83  Linux
/dev/hde6      53464383  54492479    1028097  82  Linux swap

##########PARTITION.HDE###########################

# partition table of device: /dev/hde
unit: sectors

/dev/hde1 : start=        63, size=   4176837, Id=  6
/dev/hde2 : start=   4176963, size=   8321607, Id=  7
/dev/hde3 : start=  12498570, size=  10233405, Id=  7
/dev/hde4 : start=  22731975, size=  31760505, Id=  5
/dev/hde5 : start=  22732038, size=  30732282, Id= 83, bootable
/dev/hde6 : start=  53464383, size=   1028097, Id= 82