> I set up a 8gb partition using fdisk and formated the lower 24gb with MS
> format. Then I used Partition Magic 5.0 to set up a 1,000mb root partition,
> "/", a 2gb /usr partition and a 1gb swap partition. I used Partition Magic to
> format each partition (root: Linux ex2; usr: Linux ex2; Swap partition: swap)
1 gb for swap space ?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
That IS too much (read too much as an understatement).
>
> Then I made the Linux logical partition active with fdisk, went into the bios
> and set the CD as the primary drive and then rebooted a Debian 2.1 bootable
> CD-Rom which I bought in a package with an O'Reilly book.
>
> Partition Magic is quite beautiful with its resources and I'm trying to avoid
> wiping out my W98 programs, but the Linux startup does not seem to recognize
> the partitions I've set up using PM, even after I reduced the size to just
> under 1gb, and does not seem to want to proceed unless I permit it to
> partition the system itself. The last time I allowed this, it wiped my disk
> clean and I spent the past few days rebuilding 6gb of programs
>
> I understand from the FAQs that the root partition cannot exceed 1gb.
> Partition Magic claims to be taking care of the alignment
Root partition that cannot exceed 1 GB ????
I'm running 4.5 GB on / and no problems....
>
> I've surfed the Debian web site, read the O'Reilly book ("Learning Debian
> Gnu/LINUX"), went out last night and bought another $100 in LINUX books
> (including the Red Hat Linux Bible and accompanying CD), and read the good
> documentation that comes with Partition Magic.
>
> What am I missing? Would be grateful for help in getting up and running
>
> David Turetsky
>
By the way: What was the problem... I couldn't find it in your mail, where
are things going wrong??
Ron
