Install to Removable HDD-results and Help

1998-11-04 Thread Neoklis Kyriazis
Hi, I would like to report results of my effrot to install Debian to removable HDD, although this may well be known. The difficuties I had originally trying to partition the removable HDD (/dev/hdb) were due to apparently incompatible formatting of the disk by Win95. After formatting and trying

Re: Install to removable hdd

1998-11-01 Thread Michael B. Taylor
It is possible for a disk to be in a state where cfdisk (the program used on the installation disk) can't work on it, but fdisk can. fdisk is a bit harder to use, but I suggest that you give it a shot. -choose the option on the installation program that lets you exit to a console -type 'fdisk

Install to removable hdd

1998-11-01 Thread Neoklis Kyriazis
Hi all, I am a newbie to Linux, Debian and this forum so I hope I get thru! I have been trying to install (sneak in!) Linux from cdrom on to a PC at work so I have to do this on a removable hdd. I originally failed to install from the cdrom for some reason so I downloaded resc1440 and copied t