No panic, it's all right ... > James Patrick Galvin, Jr. wrote: > > Okay, I've got most of the stuff figured out, but I'm still a little > confused. I ran FIPS and split my primary DOS partition and then I > formated the new partition (D:). Don't format the new partition under DOS: you need native linux partition. I suggest you to set up at least 4 partitions for linux you will use as: / (root); /usr; /home and a swap one. It's safer to have different partitions for maintenance purposes you'll learn with time and patience.
> I then booted from the floppy which > I wrote resc1440.bin to and attempted to install Debian, but the > Patrition Your Hard Disk came up and I tried to skip it, but it > wouldn't let me so I went along with it, but it said that it gave a > fatal error. Before why it wouldn't let me skip it is because I Don't well understand what do you mean, don't skip that point... you can check the partition scheme al least. Then set the mount point for each partition (i.e.: /dev/hda2 on / (root); /dev/hda3 on /usr ...) > didn't have a native linux partition. I am really confused in this > part. I restored my normal partition by using restorrb.exe so my > computer is back to its previous state, but I need help with this > partitioning stuff. Please help me!!! :) > > Jim > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good luck and never give up! ;-) Ciao. Giovanni Biscuolo _________________________________________________________________ Linux: where have you been since yesterday ? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
