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Re: Installation Help Needed Please :)



No panic, it's all right ...

> James Patrick Galvin, Jr. wrote:
> 
> Okay, I've got most of the stuff figured out, but I'm still a little
> confused.  I ran FIPS and split my primary DOS partition and then I
> formated the new partition (D:). 
Don't format the new partition under DOS: you need native linux
partition. I suggest you to set up at least 4 partitions for linux you
will use as: / (root); /usr; /home and a swap one. It's safer to have
different partitions for maintenance purposes you'll learn with time and
patience.


> I then booted from the floppy which
> I wrote resc1440.bin to and attempted to install Debian, but the
> Patrition Your Hard Disk came up and I tried to skip it, but it
> wouldn't let me so I went along with it, but it said that it gave a
> fatal error.  Before why it wouldn't let me skip it is because I
Don't well understand what do you mean, don't skip that point... you can
check the partition scheme al least. Then set the mount point for each
partition (i.e.: /dev/hda2 on / (root); /dev/hda3 on /usr ...)


> didn't have a native linux partition.  I am really confused in this
> part.  I restored my normal partition by using restorrb.exe so my
> computer is back to its previous state, but I need help with this
> partitioning stuff.  Please help me!!! :)
> 
> Jim
> jgalvinjr@hotmail.com

Good luck and never give up! ;-)

Ciao.
Giovanni Biscuolo

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