You found a bug in GNU Parted

[Joel Teay]

GNU Parted 1.6.15
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This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

 

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Using /dev/hda
                                                                                                                                                  
(parted) check
                                                                         
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to address@hidden containing the version (1.6.15), and the following message:

 

Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:485 in function probe_partition_for_geom()
failed.
                                                                         
Ignore/Cancel? i
                                                                         
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to address@hidden containing the version (1.6.15), and the following message:

 

Assertion (sectors <= 63) at disk_dos.c:490 in function
probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
                                                                         
Ignore/Cancel? i

I don't know if this helps you any but

 

Elle:~# fdisk -l

 

Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 2646 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes

 

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       516   3900928+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2           517      2645  16095240    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5           517      1033   3908488+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6          1034      1355   2434288+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda7          1356      1558   1534648+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda8          1559      1882   2449408+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9          1883      2077   1474168+  83  Linux
/dev/hda10         2078      2401   2449408+  83  Linux
/dev/hda11         2402      2531    982768+  83  Linux
/dev/hda12         2532      2597    498928+  83  Linux
/dev/hda13         2598      2645    362848+  82  Linux swap         

 

this version of parted is from Fedora core 3.

 

I was tring to install and the pops up right after they ask for my keyboard type.

 

If you need any more infor please let me know.

 

 

Joel