Having managed a trial install of Debian, I'm trying to get the kinks out. Original problem: The standard install had problems formatting and recognizing my 13.6 Gig disk. I assume this is a limitation of cfdisk. I used fdisk from another window and then rebooted to get things going. Because I wasn't sure all was well, and because I like making things work, I thought I'd try giving the loader the hard drive geometry. Which led to ....
Second problem: When I boot off the CheapBytes CD and type hd=26353,16,63 It responds Could not find kernel image: hd=23353.,16 I have tried some variants, including "default hd=....", and "hda=..." but they all produce the same response. I've found a few other messages with this error message, but none of them indicate how to handle a standard install. It sounds as if I need to say xxxx hd=..... where xxx is some image name. But I'm not sure what xxx is. So I'd appreciate answers to any or all of the following questions: 1) How do I specify hard drive geometry to the loader for the inital install? 2) If I do specify such parameters, will it help cfdisk? 3) If I don't, but use fdisk, will the rest of the install be OK (as long as I honor the installation guides warnings to activate paritions via the installer GUI)? P.S. I preferred the greater control fdisk gave anyway, so I didn't just have to put things at the beginning or end of my free space.
