Re: Newcomer to Linux
On 21 Mar 1999, Bala Iyer wrote:
> I am a newcomer to Linux. Wants to learn. Down loaded all the files. Read
> everything many times and tried to install several times. Spend about 70 hours
> so far but failed to understand where it is going wrong. I will be thankful
> for any help. I have a Pentium 166 with 32MB memory with 2.1 HD. I have with
> fdisk partitioned an extented.logical drive with 894 mb. with resc1440.bin
> when I boot it goes on with many information on the screen and finally comes
> to boot: on enter it goes for installation and after checking for the keyboard
> wants for partitioning the hard drive. I tried various things lime trying with
> delete, new, etc. Tried with boot, primary to logical and everything. Finally
> it gets struck on Write to disk the table and I have to switch the machine to
> get out. I also tried to get all the files to the logical drive which is E for
> me and tried to do that way (floopyless installation) and failed to know how
> to boot from E. May be I did not understand all that is necessary to install.
> I want someone to help me out of this. Thanks again. Bye.
You should probably delete the partition you created and let the
installation program go through the partitioning step so Debian can
install onto free space on your hard drive. A swap (type 82) partition
will be created first (it should probably be 64 MB (2 X RAM), followed by
a ext2 (type 83) partition (probably all the available space) unto which
the system will be installed. If you install from the hard drive, you must
install into a different partition than the one containing the files.
Bob
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