Thanks, Wouter. It becomes clearer that I need to use as recent a version of Debian as possible to deal with booting Linux from the the 34GB hard drive I have installed
Another thought I had is to use the old 1.2GB hard drive from my old Gateway, but I observe (at least in Windows) a lot of system overhead and slower performance when I have it daisy-chained to the large drive. Among other things, the IBM drive is rotating at 7200 vs 5400 and has a huge on board buffer, making writing faster than reading, so I'm inclined to try to work matters out via partitioning. With the 34GB as my boot drive, I also suspect the problem of large disk addressing remains even is the second OS is otherwise on another drive. Or I could buy a <8GB drive and use that as the boot drive, and the issue evaporates David ----- Original Message ----- From: Wouter Hanegraaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 9:56 AM Subject: Re: Setting up Debian - III > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:02:01AM -0800, davidturetsky wrote: > > In response to below suggestion, I repartitioned as follows: > > > > c: 5,004.6 meg > > Extended: > > / 2,502.3 > > swap 502.0 > > /usr 5,004.6 > > e: 19,618.4 > > > > The Debian install takes me to the same problems as before: > > > > When I permit partitioning: > > "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 0. Partition ends after end-of-disk. > > Press any key to exit cfdisk" > > Have you tried starting the installation with the slink r4 bootdisk yet? > I used them successfully on a 13G drive, where the standard bootdisks from > my release 3 cd failed. > > You can download them at > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian2.1r4/main/disks-i386/current/ > > The images are resc1400.bin and drv1440.bin > > HTH, > > Wouter
