I answered my own question eventually. I used
Micrsoft's fdisk function to make all the partitions (physical, extended
and logical). It will only create DOS and WIN partitions.
Maybe I disn't need to do this but I thought it might be safer.
Then I loaded the Debian CD. Here's the trick. DO N
I booted from the 2.1 CD and tried to Partition a Hard Drive but it appears
that cfdisk doesn't know how to handle extended partitions on a 12GB disk.
I used Win98's DOS diskette fdisk to format the extended partition and
allocate the logical drive partitions. Then when I return back to the
instal
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