Re: basic question on splitting partitions
Peter Christensen wrote:
>Sorry if this question is too basic. I've been following several
>newsgroups for a while and haven't seen this situation addressed.
>
>I have a 3.2 GB hard drive and 16-bit addressing, so it's partitioned
>into a C drive of about 2 GB and a D drive for the rest of the space.
>I'd like to keep Windows 95 on the C drive while I work on installing
>Linux on D.
>
>>From reading the installation instructions it sounded like I should
>create a Swap partition within "D." So I created a system floppy with
>the FIPS directory on it. Upon execution it displayed the partition
>table showing partition 1 consisting of 2047 MB and partition 2
>consisting of 1047 MB. It asked which partition to split, and I chose
>"2." The resulting error message said: "Can't split extended
>partitions. FIPS can not yet split extended DOS partitions."
>
>What should I do? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Why not just delete the D partition? When you install Debian, it will
give you the opportunity to repartition the free space; you can make
a swap partition then.
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