Re: Which partition is which

On 18/04/12 17:47, Jens Tobiska wrote: I have a computer with windows xp and two ntfs partitions. One of them (D:) is empty and I would like to use it for debian. My problem is to figure out which partition corresponds to the empty partition when installing debian, i.e. which partition I can modi

Re: Which partition is which

Hello Jens, Jens Tobiska wrote: > C: 139.80 GB NTFS, logical, boot > D: 139.65 GB NTFS, primary, system > > In debian installer they appear as: > > #2 primary 149.9 GB ntfs B > #5 logical 150.1 GB ntfs > > I would guess that #2=D and #5=C based on relative size and > "logical/primary". Yes.

Which partition is which

I have a computer with windows xp and two ntfs partitions. One of them (D:) is empty and I would like to use it for debian. My problem is to figure out which partition corresponds to the empty partition when installing debian, i.e. which partition I can modify. The partitions appear as follows in