On Mon, Apr 30, 2001, Abner Gershon wrote:
> Just to clarify I tried again to use DOS fdisk as
> found on Windows ME StartUp floppy. I may be
> overlooking something but it does not appear possible
> to make more than one primary partition on a single
> physical hard drive with this application.
>
Just to clarify I tried again to use DOS fdisk as
found on Windows ME StartUp floppy. I may be
overlooking something but it does not appear possible
to make more than one primary partition on a single
physical hard drive with this application.
I have downloaded the floppy disk images of "rescue"
a
Now *this* is an opinion! I've built boxes and used both fdisk and cfdisk to
partition my drives and do complete installs, *then* moved onto installing
windoz. Since I knew that installing windoz was going to break my
lilo(@mbr), I built a boot disk. Post win98 install, I just boot off the
dis
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 12:04:25PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Yeah, DOS fdisk is unsurprisingly a steaming pile of crap. If you
> must partition your drive before installing Debian, use something like
> PQ Magic. It can even format ext2 partitions for you...
No proporietary PQ Magic here please
On (29/04/01 08:13), Abner Gershon wrote:
> I have a 40 GB hard drive and I am in the process of
> partitioning it and reinstalling Windows ME in
> expectation of installing Patatoe 2.2r3 when I receive
> the CDs from Cheapbytes.
..
> So far I have created on my first HD (39 GB total) one
> FA
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 04:29:50PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:13:31AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote:
> > ... Also in Karsten Self's
> > mini-FAQ on partitioning he refers to creating 3
> > primary and 1 logical partitions. Using fdisk I was
> > only able to create one p
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:13:31AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote:
> ... Also in Karsten Self's
> mini-FAQ on partitioning he refers to creating 3
> primary and 1 logical partitions. Using fdisk I was
> only able to create one primary and one extended
> partition per hard drive. Am I doing something wr
I have a 40 GB hard drive and I am in the process of
partitioning it and reinstalling Windows ME in
expectation of installing Patatoe 2.2r3 when I receive
the CDs from Cheapbytes. I have been generally trying
to follow directions provided in Linux Partitioning
mini-FAQ by Karsten Self and in Instal
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