Hi, I would like to report results of my effrot to install Debian to removable HDD, although this may well be known. The difficuties I had originally trying to partition the removable HDD (/dev/hdb) were due to apparently incompatible formatting of the disk by Win95. After formatting and trying to partition with fdisk, the p command gave me a list of 4 primary partitions with a lot of fault messages. In the end I got over this by using the d command to delete these and repartition the disk.
Trying to install from CDROM, I managed to boot from the CDROM but pressing Return after the boot: prompt, I got the message "loading root.bin..." but then the computer apparently froze and I had to reset to reboot. I wonder what if any parameters I should enter after boot: to get the installation going? Finally, can anyone please advise on the choice of primary/logical type for the partitions and which of the usual partitions (root,swap,user etc) should be of either type? I have a 1Gb hdd and 32 Mb ram. Thanks --- Neoklis Kyriazis My Homepage: http://www.arcsite.de/hp/neoklis -----== Sent via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Easy access to 50,000+ discussion forums
