Re: Re: Installing to a swapable hard drive

2004-01-02 Thread Douglas Dreistadt
Hello, Thanks, Michelle, for the advice so far. Right now I am stuck in the middle of installation. I have made it as far as disk formatting, but cannot "mount" the root partition. When I try to mount dev/hda1 as the root file system, I get a [Mount failed: Invalid argum

Re: Installing to a swapable hard drive

2004-01-01 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2004-01-01 16:29:16, schrieb Douglas Dreistadt: >Hi folks, Happy New Year! > Like most bilingual users, I run a dual boot >system. Right now I am dual booting Win98SE >English and Win98SE Japanese. I use removable hard >disks, and I have my system arranged as follows: I use IDE-Racks too...

Installing to a swapable hard drive

2004-01-01 Thread Douglas Dreistadt
Hi folks, Happy New Year! I'm about to take the Debian plunge, but have a pre-installation problem. I tried reading your installation docs, but they all seem to assume that the user is already running Windows, and wants to either create a new partition in C:> drive for Linux