Many thanks to Kent West and Greg Wiley for their suggestions. I have tried
to partition my new 40GB drive using fdisk in DOS, and cfdisk in the Debian
installation process.
With fdisk I can create a primary DOS partition, and a number of further
extended and logical partitions, that, when formatted in DOS produce disk
drives labelled D:, E:, F:, G: etc. Thats fine - except I don't want more
than 1 additional drive for Windows98 - I already have a 10GB C: drive, and
thought adding a new partition on the new disk, to give a D: drive of say
another 10GB would be fine, allowing me to use the remaining 30GB or so for
my shiny new Linux system.
Using cfdisk, only 2GB of the new disk seems to be available, and I can
create a primary DOS partition quite easily, or a Linux partition, with
extended and logical partitions; however, I don't seem to be able to gain
access to the rest of the diskspace.
Apologies if this seems like simple stuff, but this does not seem easy to
achieve. I have looked at the "large disk HOWTO" pages, and do not seem to
be able to find the answer there. I already have Windows98 installed on my
C: drive.
If anyone has had similar experiences, or could suggest a solution, I would
be grateful to hear from them!
many thanks,
Duncan Smith
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From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: disk partitioning problems
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:36:52 -0500
Duncan Smith wrote:
Hi There,
As a new Linux enthusiast, I am trying to configure and install Debian
Linux on my PC, and I am having problems partitioning my new hard drive
for this. I would be reallly grateful for some advice. The new disk is
approx 40 GB, and I have tried lots of things. What I don't understand
from all the literature I have been reading is how to partition the
drive. I thought I should make a DOS primary partition of say 40% of the
total disk space for use with Windows 98. Should I then create another
DOS partition in which to install Linux, or have the Linux installation
process create a new partition in the remaining space? Right now I get
an error message saying that the primary partition table is corrupted,
when I try to partition the disk in the Linux installation process. I
have no data on the new drive, and am a little stuck! Any ideas would be
very welcome.
Thanks,
Duncan Smith
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Install Win98 on the laptop just like you normally would, but when it
asks about paritioning, limit the size to 40% or whatever you desire.
Once Win98 is installed, boot off the Debian CD, and when it gets to the
partitioning stage, use the remaining 60% to create your Linux partitions.
As a general rule, you want to create partitions with the OS that will
be using those partitions.
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