On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:55:56AM -0700, Hamma Scott wrote:
>
> By the way, welcome the fun and sometimes confusing
> world of Debian GNU/Linux! Here's a couple of things I
> got out of this groups
>
> You should bookmark this sight:
> http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/
and you should also help
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:29:54AM -0700, phillip wrote:
> i just started installing debian 2.1, but everytime i go to partition the
> drive, cfdisk gives me this error about a "bad primary partition" Then I
Try 2.2 (potato). Really. I can't guarantee that that's the cause of your
problem, but
thanks for the quick responses...
the thing is, is that i used fdisk to make the original partitions... but
then cfdisk won't recognize them. i'm guessing i need a newer version of
the install... perhaps something about this large disk and UDMA. i really
have no idea why cfdisk thinks my partiti
At work I installed a Window 2K/Debian dual boot.
The steps I took were:
0. Read the Debian Installation Instructions
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.txt
If you're new to Debian you might have been
like me thinking that "installation instructions
aren't r
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:29:54AM -0700, phillip wrote:
> i just started installing debian 2.1, but everytime i go to partition the
> drive, cfdisk gives me this error about a "bad primary partition" Then I
> get a message about how my partition table is either corrupt or my disk is
> 'factory cl
hey,
i just started installing debian 2.1, but everytime i go to partition the
drive, cfdisk gives me this error about a "bad primary partition" Then I
get a message about how my partition table is either corrupt or my disk is
'factory clean' it requests to 'wipe my disk's current partition t
Thanks, Bob! I guess I should have kept going with fdisk instead of
wimping out. I probably would have gone down that path eventually.
I asked two of my friends familiar with this (both Debian users, in
fact) and both of them answered with "I don't remember exactly how that
works, but it does."
On Sun, 06 Jul 1997 15:34:46 -0700, Dan Hugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What to I do with extended and logical partitions when I have three
> physical paritions on my drive already?
>
> In other words, I have hda1,hda2,hda3, and I would like to add more than
> hda4. Assuming I am using fdisk,
I've read the HOWTO's and some other info, but it seems that this topic
is sort of glossed over, and I have never really understood exactly what
to do, so I wonder if someone could give me the total newbie answer to
this question:
What to I do with extended and logical partitions when I have three
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