This weekend I tried to install Debian on a new Dell box. As shipped the 20GB Maxtor drive had a single Win98 partition. I used fips20 to split it, then booted the normal Debian CD. All looked normal until cfdisk ran: it was unable to read a valid partition table and wanted to reset it.
I've run Scandisk on the resized Win98 partition and it's happy, so I assume that fips20 did work successfully. Does anyone have any ideas what might be going wrong here, or recommend any tools to further diagnose or fix the problem. Cheers, -- Martin Oldfield,
