On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Eric Budd wrote: > Forgive for asking a stupid qeustion, but here goes. . . > > I am building a system from used parts to run debian on, and the hard drive > I have is DOS-formatted, but not as a system disk. Is there any way that i > can format that disk for Debian straight from the floppies without having to > find a system to remount the drive on and format as a sys. disk? If so, > will this cause any problems with the Debian system?
There are no stupid questions... (Maybe some stupid answers, but that's something else entirely.) I'm making these assumptions from your message: - you have a hard drive with the DOS (FAT) system on it - you want to make it an exclusively Debian drive That's simple. Just follow the standard installation procedure; it reformats the drive anyway. | This is OFFICIAL WRITTEN notification that I want to be REMOVED | | from ALL commercial mailing lists. EVERY message sent from this | | account has had this request posted. ALL UNSOLICITED ADVERTISEMENTS | | SENT TO THIS ACCOUNT ARE IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL (U.S.) LAW. | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
