Re: newbie

[Richard Fillion <rick@rhix.ods.org>]

The osf/bsd labels are a tad confusing at first.  It took me the better
part of a day to figure it out.  I'm not entirely sure which
partitioning tool you're being sent to, but i suggest you hit alt+f2 and
use fdisk.  fdisk /dev/hda will probably be what you'll have to type.
Now if you hit "m" for help, you should see "b   edit bsd disklabel".
Thats what you're looking for.  You dont want partitions on the disk,
you want BSD disklabels.  They are slightly different.  

Here's a tip for ya...save yourself a bit of trouble, and start the
first labal "a" a few megs from the start.  I'm guessing you'll be using
aboot to boot the box, it needs a bit of room at the start of the disk.
That'll give it the room it needs.

Richard Fillion
rick@rhix.ods.org

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 04:21:52PM -0800, Bob Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just got my 433au today in the mail.  I am trying to install debian 3.0r1 on it.  Now I have used linux before, but this is all new to me here.  It tells me that I have to have an (I think) an osf/bsd boot label, then it sends me to the disk partioning program.  I type the letter b like it tells me to, then type r to go to the regular disk setup.  I then try to add a swap partion, etc. and it boots me back to the original disk partion screen.
> 
> Help, I'm desperate, how do you set up the hard drive (ide, not scsi) to install debian.  I looked at the install directions and it basically tells you the same thing the install program does.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bob