Hello again,
I tried Installing Knoppix 3.7 by booting
from the CD into text-only mode, and with a couple of boot parameters (knoppix
vga=normal 2) it worked. This is encouraging, since Knoppix is based on Debian
(Sarge?). I really wanted Debian Sarge though. After going back to the my Sa
Greetings,
The two hexdumps below show the mbr
before and after the Sarge installer partitions the drive. The "after" partition
is garbled in a suprisingly orderly way (some columns are filled with
alternating hex values). The partitioner (and cfdisk 2.12) can read the
partition, but wri
27;55AA' (which I believe marks the end of the partition table for a bootable partition).
So my question to the list is; Is it OK to use the above-mentioned cat-hexdump-morecommand, or am I deceiving myself somehow? TIA,
Steve Kleiser
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