Re: LLS: Install cfdisk and 12GB disk

[Lyno Sullivan]

I answered my own question eventually.  I used Micrsoft's fdisk function to make all the partitions (physical, extended and logical).  It will only create DOS and WIN partitions.  Maybe I disn't need to do this but I thought it might be safer.

Then I loaded the Debian CD.  Here's the trick.  DO NOT USE "Partition a Hard Drive" function.  It uses cfdisk and won't work.  Instead, "Execute a Shell" and use "fdisk" to partition the drive.  Since I had used DOS to built all the partitions, I merely used fdisk to change the partition types.

Simple, after many hours effort, to develop the necessary hindsight.

At 11:10 PM 4/18/99 -0500, Lyno Sullivan wrote:
>I booted from the 2.1 CD and tried to Partition a Hard Drive but it appears
>that cfdisk doesn't know how to handle extended partitions on a 12GB disk.
>I used Win98's DOS diskette fdisk to format the extended partition and
>allocate the logical drive partitions.  Then when I return back to the
>install, cfdisk gets a "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition".  I don't know
>how to get unstuck.  Thank you for any help you can provide.
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