Looks like you are trying to enable the primary partition as swap. Not sure if that could be a problem. Try to use one of the logical partitions (/dev/hda5 above) as swap.
Also, I was told that its not possible to install Windows in logical partition. let me know if you are able to install Windows in there. === Bye, nram [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-----------------------------------------------------+ |Linux Now | Ramesh Natarajan | |http://www.kernel.org | http://nram.virtualAve.net | +-----------------------------------------------------+ In a world without fences, who needs Gates? _______________________________________________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.) -- Mark Twain ---Ulrich Gruen mails again <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear helpful person. > > I have a problem with the installation of linux, and I hope that you > can help me. I tried to install Debian linux, with the help of > cfdisk.txt and the "Installing Debian Linux 2.0 For x86" guide. I try > to install with floppies. I have an i386-25 MHz and 4MB RAM, and I'm > using lowmem.bin > > At this point I've repartitioned the dev/hda (harddisk) with cfdisk. > Now, I have the following partitions: > Partition 1: type 82 (linuxSwap), 32 MB; > Partition 2: type 81 (Minix), 4 MB; > partition 3: type 83(linux), 300 MB; > partition 4.: type 4(?) (dos fat 16), ~ 70 MB; > > I have toggled a bootable flag to partition 3. > > The problem: When I try to activate the swap-partition, I get the > following error message: "The swap partition /dev/hda1 could not be > activated: Device or resource busy" > > ! At this moment, linux isn't installed yet. ! > > Do you know how to solve this problem? (or is there > better information at Debian.org available how to partition and > activate?) I have very little knowledge about computer conficuration. > > I would be very grateful if you could help me with this problem. > > Yours Ulrich > > > > > ****************Signature below********************* > Ulrich Gruen > Utrecht University > Faculty of Chemistry > Department of Science, Technology and Society (NW&S) > (room B203) > Padualaan 14 > 3584 CH UTRECHT > The Netherlands > > Phone: +31-30-2537615 > FAX : +31-30-2537601 > Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > WWW homepage of the Department Of Sience, Technology and Society > http://www.chem.ruu.nl/nws/www/nws.html > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > If a fiddler played you a song my love, > and if I gave you a wheel. > Would you spin for my heart and loneliness, > would you spin for my love. > > If I gave up all of my pride for you, > and only loved you for now. > Would you hide my fears and never say, > Tomorrow I must go. > > Everywhere, there's rain my love. > Everywhere, there's fear. > > If you tell me a lie, I'll cry for you. > Tell me of sin and I'll laugh. > If you tell me of all the pain you've had, > I'll never smile again. > > Everywhere there's rain my love. > Every where there's fear. > > I can plainly see that our parts have changed. > Our sands are shifted around. > Need I beg to you for one more day, > to find our lonely love. > > Everywhere there's rain my love. > Everywhere there's fear. > > Phantasmagoria in Two (Tim Buckley, 1967) > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
