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Re: partitioning



On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 07:58:39PM +0300, wency mumala wrote:
> I have been trying to install debian woody on a dos formatted partition of my toshiba 1805-s274 which has 2 partitions windows xp(16gb) and free (4gb dos formated). 
> 
> when i get to the partioning screen, all i see is the partition table which shows the 2 partitions above. Absolutely nothing else! Somehow, the systems seems to expect some input from me. I would have expected something like press S to select or Format or ....
> 
> How do specify the partition and proceed.

You could select the dos partition and ask it to delete it, since you
can't install to a dos partition.  You need unpartitioned free space to
make partitions in for linux.

Len Sorensen



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