I don't quite understand what is wrong here, but I know that FIPS makes 2
DOS partitions. When I FIPSed my hard drive (back in the days) I then
deleted the new partition and made 1 linux and 1 swap.
Hope that is relevant.
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 08:37:31AM -0500, Bryan Walton wrote:
> Hello,
> Please forgive me for this newbie question. I am new to linux and Debian.
> I have a question regarding installation. I have a 13 gig hard drive
> which I partitioned this past weekend so that I could dual boot Debian
> Linux alongside Windows 98. Using the fips program, I split my hard drive
> into two 6.5 Gig drives. Everything seemed to go fine.
> Last night I began my installation of Debian (slink). Very soon into the
> process, it told me that there was no linux swap partitions preset on my
> system and it told me to partition my hard disk to add "linux native" and
> "linux swap" partitions to my disk.
> So, knowing that I needed to create a linux swap, I did as it told me and
> sought to partition the /dev/hda drive. But then it gave me an error
> message saying "Fatal Error: Bad primary partition." Then it told me
> "cfdisk has failed while trying to repartition your disk. That may mean
> your disk's partition table is corrupt, or your disk is 'factory clean.' I
> may wipe out your disk's current partition table and run cfdisk again.
> Warning: You will lost any data currently on that disk. Are you sure you
> want me to do this?"
> I would like to make sure I understand what has happened here. I think
> this all means that when I used Fips to partition my hard drive, that
> something went wrong. Furthermore, the only solution is for the Debian
> Installation program to clear the entire hard drive and start again,
> essentially wiping out Windows and everything running off of Windows. Is
> this correct? Is there anyway to fix this problem without erasing
> everything? Or am I wrong in what I think is happening here?
>
> Thanks very much!
> Bryan Walton
>
>
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