Re: Installed system so many times
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:28:29PM -0500, Mike wrote:
> Hi, I've installed my base system and repartitioned my disk with cfdisk innumerable times. Now I have problems.
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> Once when I repartitioned cfdisk I got a message that the boot floppies were not designed to install over a previously installed system. But by this time it was too late for me I done it already. Another message I got is that after repartitioning should reboot, then there was a warning message that rolled past my screen too quick for me to read it.
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> Now when I go to do a reinstall the setup won't allow me to mount or initialize a partition except for swap. Is there a way out to succesfully install Debian from here? How can it be done?
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> More information, last time I was doing my install I installed base system form http and it couldn't fetch one file and so I went back and did an install via cdrom. That didn't work out.
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> Your help is appreciated. If you require more information I will do my best to provide it. Thank you.
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> Mike
> British Columbia, Canada
The installer always suggests that you initialize swap first.
After that's done, it suggests mounting your root partition.
How does it fail when you try that?
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