On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:25:18 +0545 (NPT) Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Luke Kearney wrote: > > > and to reboot but after a reboot nothing is changed. Current partition > > schema looks a bit like this:- > > > > /dev/hda win2k > > /dev/hdb FBSD > How can this be a partition list. What you are showing is the list of > disks attached. > > > > > I am trying to install Deb on /hdc and /hdd . This may not be a wise > Again, you say you're trying to install debian on hdc and hdd. > > hda -- Primary Master > hdb -- Primary Slave > hdc -- Secondary Master > hdd -- Secondary Slave > These are all disks. > Partitions in gnulinux (and might be other *nixes too) are like this: > /dev/hda1 > /dev/hda2 > /dev/hda5 > /dev/hda6 > > Here hda1 and hda2 are Primary partitions whereas hda5 and hda6 are > logical partitions. Do some googling on Linux Partition Scheme. > > HTH, > rrs you are of course absolutely correct. What I mean to say was /dev/hda1 win2k /dev/hda2 FBSD /dev/hda3 <---- where i am hoping to install deb. So I my difficulty is simply that I don't seem to be able to correctly write the partition info to disk. I get an error saying that the information was written but could not be re-read and to reboot. From there of course I cannot initialize any partitions. Any further advice is most appreciated. Regards, -- Luke Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
