Re: LLS: Install cfdisk and 12GB disk
I answered my own question eventually. I used
Micrsoft's fdisk function to make all the partitions (physical, extended
and logical). It will only create DOS and WIN partitions.
Maybe I disn't need to do this but I thought it might be safer.
Then I loaded the Debian CD. Here's the trick. DO NOT USE
"Partition a Hard Drive" function. It uses cfdisk and
won't work. Instead, "Execute a Shell" and use
"fdisk" to partition the drive. Since I had used DOS to
built all the partitions, I merely used fdisk to change the partition
types.
Simple, after many hours effort, to develop the necessary
hindsight.
At 11:10 PM 4/18/99 -0500, Lyno Sullivan wrote:
>I booted from the 2.1 CD and tried to Partition a Hard Drive but it
appears
>that cfdisk doesn't know how to handle extended partitions on a 12GB
disk.
>I used Win98's DOS diskette fdisk to format the extended partition
and
>allocate the logical drive partitions. Then when I return back
to the
>install, cfdisk gets a "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary
partition". I don't know
>how to get unstuck. Thank you for any help you can
provide.
>
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