Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-10 Thread Gertjan Klein
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, the thought here is that if a partition is a primary Linux > partition rather than a Linux partition sitting in a DOS extended > partition, perhaps a virus looking for DOS partitions will leave the LINUX > partitions alone. Whereas, viruses would recognise

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks, the thought here is that if a partition is a primary Linux partition > rather than a Linux partition sitting in a DOS extended partition, perhaps a > virus looking for DOS partitions will leave the LINUX partitions alone. > Whereas, viruses wo

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-10 Thread tko
Dale Scheetz writes: > > On Tue, 9 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have a question for you... What happens to the Linux partitions sitting > > in a > > "extended" partition if the extended partition gets accidently _trashed_? > > (like from a virus) > > > I assume it does the same thi

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a question for you... What happens to the Linux partitions sitting in a > "extended" partition if the extended partition gets accidently _trashed_? > (like from a virus) > I assume it does the same thing as trashing a primary partition ... FUBA

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-09 Thread tko
Dale Scheetz writes: > > On 8 Dec 1997, Sten Anderson wrote: > > > > > > > That's the problem-^ > > > > > > When You install debian (or most other distributions), you must remove > > > these > > > pseudo-partitions as only DOS understands them. > >

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-09 Thread Gertjan Klein
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Logical partitions created with DOS > fdisk are completely unusable by Linux, and often will result in cfdisk > reporting a broke partition table. In general, it is wise to assume human error or misunderstanding when problems with partition tables ap

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-08 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 8 Dec 1997, Sten Anderson wrote: > > > > That's the problem-^ > > > > When You install debian (or most other distributions), you must remove > > these > > pseudo-partitions as only DOS understands them. > > Are you saying that linux can't handle

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-08 Thread G John Lapeyre
On 8 Dec 1997, Sten Anderson wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Gianluca Ryo Trimarchi writes: > > > > > > Few days ago I've installed my "new" hd (conner 1080mb) in my computer.= > > > It's > > > splitted in three partions: 1 primary (dos fat 16) e 2 logical for linux = > > > > That's

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-08 Thread Sten Anderson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gianluca Ryo Trimarchi writes: > > > > Few days ago I've installed my "new" hd (conner 1080mb) in my computer.= > > It's > > splitted in three partions: 1 primary (dos fat 16) e 2 logical for linux = > > That's the problem-^^

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-08 Thread tko
Gianluca Ryo Trimarchi writes: > > > First of all, sorry my bad English :-) > > Please help me with these problem: > > Few days ago I've installed my "new" hd (conner 1080mb) in my computer.= > It's > splitted in three partions: 1 primary (dos fat 16) e 2 logical for linux = That's the proble