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Re: debian installation woes



Wayne Topa wrote:
> 
>         Subject: Re: debian installation woes
>         Date: Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:59:08AM -0800
> 
> In reply to:aphro
> 
> Quoting aphro(nate@firetrail.com):
> > you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary..
> >
> > nate
> 
> OH??  Gee, I wonder why my potato dist is working so well
> on hdb10.  A 1 gig logical partition, the last partition,
> on a 6.4 gig drive.  Am I just lucky, or might you be mistaken?
> 
> Where did this gem "it must be primary.." come from anyway?  I've
> heard others "quote" this before.
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Same here! I have both slink and potato each on logical partitions as
well as Win98 with no probs. The only thing that I ever ran into was 
NT: that's one cow that will never fly, unless it's on the primary
partition. That's likely because NTFS is incompatible with most anything
else.
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