Re: Error when partitionig my hard drive.

1998-08-03 Thread count zero
Mrpeabody wrote: > I have a computer that came with windows 98 on it. I want to paritition > > the drive and put linux on it but when I try to partition the drive > using debian basic install on the rescue disk it shows that my only > drive is dev/hda and when I try to paritition it I get a FAT

Re: Error when partitionig my hard drive.

1998-08-02 Thread Keith
Isn't there a DOS utility that will allow you take a chunk of your DOS partition and make it available to Linux. I think it is called cfdisk. I think you have to free up space on your drive for linux. If you don't want Windows 98 than just fdisk it and than Linux will use all the free space for it

Error when partitionig my hard drive.

1998-08-02 Thread Mrpeabody
I have a computer that came with windows 98 on it. I want to paritition the drive and put linux on it but when I try to partition the drive using debian basic install on the rescue disk it shows that my only drive is dev/hda and when I try to paritition it I get a FATAL ERROR: Bad Primary Partiti