On Friday, September 21, 2001 6:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [...] I have tried to partition my new 40GB drive using fdisk in DOS,
> [...]
> With fdisk I can create a primary DOS partition, and a number of further
> extended and logical partitions, that, when formatted in DOS produce disk
>
similar experiences, or could suggest a solution, I would
be grateful to hear from them!
many thanks,
Duncan Smith
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From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: Duncan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 2:48 PM, Duncan Smith wrote:
> As a new Linux enthusiast, I am trying to configure
> and install Debian Linux on my PC, and I am having
> problems partitioning my new hard drive for this. I
> would be reallly grateful for some advice. The new
> disk is approx 40
Duncan Smith wrote:
Hi There,
As a new Linux enthusiast, I am trying to configure and install Debian
Linux on my PC, and I am having problems partitioning my new hard drive
for this. I would be reallly grateful for some advice. The new disk is
approx 40 GB, and I have tried lots of things. W
Hi There,
As a new Linux enthusiast, I am trying to configure and install Debian Linux on my PC, and I am having problems partitioning my new hard drive for this. I would be reallly grateful for some advice. The new disk is approx 40 GB, and I have tried lots of things. What I don't understand from
If you still have the partion magic software, can you try to move the
fat32 partition to a primary partition and then make all your extended
partitions linux partitions. I find that separating linux and fat32
as much as possible is generally a good thing.
ic382 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> <
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, ic382 wrote:
>
> > space in the extended partition to install linux. But, every time I
> > try, it says "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition". I never touched the
> > 2gb primary partition, and it was always flagged bootable. The
I've talked with several others on the usenet boards, and everyone is
clueless so far. I was going to purchase the new version of debian
linux, except, my current version won't install. I currently have
version v1.3 (with kernel v2.0.29), it was on the boot disc from boot
magazine's 15th issue.
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