On Saturday 09 February 2002 09:21 pm, Bruce Burhans wrote: > Thanks to Caleb and Noah for their advice, which I have saved along with > Bens. > > To repeat: I'm a-ok with using a floppy to boot Debian until I > become skilled enough with it to be able to dump XP.This won't take > long. > I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear, but the heart of my > question is this below, about whether I should leave the secind 10Gb as > free space when I re-install xp, and if my conception of the use of > cfdsk during setup is accurate. I've read the MAN page 4X but am still > not sure if I"ve got it. >
leaving the second 10gigs free sounds okay. you could also do a minimal install of xp, since you plan to dump it anyway, and keep even more of the disk free for the linux partitions. give me a rundown on what it is that you're not sure about with cfdisk.
