On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 10:42:13AM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Vivek Varghese Cherian wrote: > >I am doing an install of Debian on VMware. My VMWare hard disk is 4.3 > >GB. I have choosen to create a root partition of 4.0 GB and swap > >partition with the rest of the free space. I have toggled the the > >bootable flag on the root partition to on. > > > >My Partition Table entry looks like this. > > > >SCSI1 (0,0,0) sda - 4.3 GB VMware, VMware Virtual S.. > > > > #1 primary 4.0 GB <thunder icon> <smiley icon> > >ext3 / > > pri/log 296.1 MB FREE SPACE > > > >I would like to know what the thunder icon and the smiley icon stands for. > > The thunder icon is "we will format this partition and all data will be > lost" the smiley icon means "we will not format this partition, but we > will use it" IIRC. HTH
They're both on the same partition--I was under the impression the the thunder was bootable--but I don't have a install disk to test my hypothesis. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Your goose is cooked. (Your current chick is burned up too!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
