Re: Re(2): Multi-partitions

1998-10-07 Thread H C Pumphrey
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Adrian Gudas wrote: > Could you clarify another couple things: > 1. Does fips work with FAT32? I have it, but I've been too scared to use > it. I believe the most recent version does. > 2. How does lilo work? (Any complications I need to know about...?) I won't add much to

Re: Multi-partitions

1998-10-07 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/06/98 at 05:22 PM, "Adrian Gudas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Okay, this is a bit of a newbie question. You've been warned... >I haven't installed Linux yet, but I'm going to as soon as my CD's arrive >in the mail. I'm pretty well-versed with the setup procedures

Re: Multi-partitions

1998-10-07 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
Just something to add to this (although Randy is correct): Let's say you have a 1.2GB /dev/hda. Make the partitions something like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 621 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End

Re(2): Multi-partitions

1998-10-06 Thread Kent West
At 07:22 PM 10/6/1998 -0400, Adrian Gudas wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>Hope this wasn't two much, or too little, hand-holding. >No, no, thanks a lot -- you solved a lot of problems for me. >This is so much better than Windows tech support. (I like to call them and >mess with their heads. "Ca

Re(2): Multi-partitions

1998-10-06 Thread Adrian Gudas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Hope this wasn't two much, or too little, hand-holding. No, no, thanks a lot -- you solved a lot of problems for me. This is so much better than Windows tech support. (I like to call them and mess with their heads. "Can I talk to Mr. Gates?" "No, sir...") Could you clari

Re: Multi-partitions

1998-10-06 Thread Kent West
At 05:22 PM 10/6/1998 -0400, Adrian Gudas wrote: >Okay, this is a bit of a newbie question. You've been warned... > >I haven't installed Linux yet, but I'm going to as soon as my CD's arrive in >the mail. I'm pretty well-versed with the setup procedures (after having >read the installation instruct

Re: Multi-partitions

1998-10-06 Thread Randy Edwards
DOS is fairly fussy about where it wants its partitions. If I were you, I'd make a small DOS partition with DOS (how large is this supposed to be? Beware of the ~510MB/1024 cylinder BIOS problems), install DOS onto it, and then install Debian elsewhere on the hard drive using Linux's fdisk to m

Multi-partitions

1998-10-06 Thread Adrian Gudas
Okay, this is a bit of a newbie question. You've been warned... I haven't installed Linux yet, but I'm going to as soon as my CD's arrive in the mail. I'm pretty well-versed with the setup procedures (after having read the installation instructions 100 times while on the john -- yes, I have no lif