dselect and dpkg parse error in the status file

Hi, I am not able to run dselect and dpkg any more (I think this happened after a crash). Dselect starts but does not let me select any files and exits (same problem with dpkg -i), both giving the following error message: dpkg: parse error, in file /var/lib/dpkg/status near line 22784 package

RE: Debian + Windows98 on the same large disk problem

with a "FATAL ERROR" message. Does this make any sense? (or I should definitely devote/waste a whole hard disk for Windows 98?) Cheers Dimitris -Original Message- From: I. Tura [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 6:14 PM To: Dimitris Dracopoulos; &#

Debian + Windows98 on the same large disk problem

Hi, I have recently got a new hard disk 40GB, in which I decided to install both Windows98 and Debian, FreeBSD. (I never wanted to install this Win98 stuff on my machine but job matters force...) I repartitioned the hard disk using slink Debian's cfdisk into a first FAT32 partition of 12GB and 3