On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Tony wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Compaq Contura 3/25 notebook, 386SL, 6mb RAM, 115mb HD. I am > trying to install Debian on a second partition created by FIPS. The first > partition is a 60mb for Dos/Win3.1, the rest for Linux. However, in the > install routine for Debian, when I try to "partition" the hard disk, the > choice is /dev/hda. When I hit OK on that, the screen flashes > "segmentationfault" in the lower left and then goes back to the setup prog > like nothing happened. so I can't install Debian! =( > > How can I get around this? I can't wait to try it.
This isn't a great workaround, not even a good one, but I'd go to a prompt and run fdisk (instead of cfdisk which the install starts for you). Press "m" for help, it's more primitive than cfdisk, but that's why I like it. Depending on where cfdisk is segfaulting, fdisk could do the same thing. Anyway, after you get a running system, you could try to figure out what's going on (ie strace cfdisk) or that sort of thing. good luck -dan
