> > before you reinstall, run dmesg. it will give you a lot of information
> > about
> > the system that might make the reinstall less tedious.
> > ____________________________________________
> > I'll assume that dmesg is on the Debian CDs and thank you much. This
> > is quite an adventure. Will I have to disable my internal modem and Plug
> > n Play during Install?
> >
> if you have even a minimal system installed on your hard drive, dmesg is
> there. what i meant was, run dmesg before you do anything else and check the
> output for error messages that might indicate any hardware incompatibility.
> even if you just boot from the cd, you can still run dmesg to achieve the
> same end.
If I followed correctly, he hasn't installed Debian yet, he was talking
about having to reinstall WinXP to resize his hard drive partitions, before
going to Debian.
