Re: Error when partitionig my hard drive.

[count zero <tonon@www.nau.it>]

Mrpeabody wrote:

> I have a computer that came with windows 98 on it.  I want to paritition
>
> the drive and put linux on it but when I try to partition the drive
> using debian basic install on the rescue disk it shows that my only
> drive is dev/hda and when I try to paritition it I get a FATAL ERROR:
> Bad Primary Partition.
>     -jeff
>

 there can be only one reason why u get this message : w98 use all your hd .
i mean that u have just unit c and unit d: as cdrom.
what u have to do is to free some space from win98 partition using an utility called
fips .
or if u prefer first delete your win98 and then insall on your hd only Linux  :-))))

hope this is what you are looking for

samuele tonon




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