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Re: Partitions



Reformat the partitions using debian's fdisk.


On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 09:56:40PM -0400, Morgoth3@aol.com wrote: 
> I'm planning on installing Debian on my new computer, but I want to keep my 
> Win98 system and dual-boot.  I started with a 6 gig drive divided into 2 3 
> gig partitions.  I then made two new partitions from the D drive, one 2 gig 
> partition for Debian, and a 64 meg partition for the swap file.  I used 
> partition Magic 4.0 to do this.  I'm installing from DOS, but when I run the 
> installation, it doesn't recognize my swap partition.  Is there a certain 
> label I need to use to do this?  I don't want to screw up my existing 
> installation.  Thanks.
> 
> Colin Winters
> 
> 
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