Re: [newbie] Install/Boot problem

[Everard Brown <debian-mailing-list@perpetua.ltd.uk>]

On Monday 26 Apr 2004 1:37 am, you wrote:
> On Sunday 25 April 2004 18:39, Everard Brown wrote:
> > That sounds a very likely cause of my problem, but when I try to
> > create the Sun disk label ('s' option in fdisk) that is always the
> > default.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest how I might acheive a partitioning scheme which
> > would be acceptable to the install program?
>
> Use "d" to delete sda1 and sda2, and then use "n" to create new ones.
> Make sure you use "t" to change the type of the swap partition to type
> 82 (Linux Swap).

Yes that cracked it. I made a 100M /boot partition and it seems much happier 
now ;-)

Just have to figure out how to boot from disk by default i.e. turn "boot net", 
as a default, off.

Thanks again,
  Everard