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Dear Experts,
I tried to install Debian Linux disk on my home
computer starting with Rescue floppy.
The machine model is emachine monster 500 with 13GB hard drive
and Windows 98 on it.
I partitioned the (only) hard drive using flip.exe like
this
800 MB for Windows 98
(650 MB system stuff), FAT 32
3.2 GB for Debian
Linux, Formatted to FAT 32
9
GB for Windows 98 applications etc,
Formatted to FAT 32
When I booted the machine with Debian rescue floppy and tried
to partition the disk (hoping it can recognize the 3.2GB partition as /dev/hda2
or /dev/hda3 and re-partition/initialize that 3.2 GB area only), it tried to
partition /dev/hda (that is whole disk) and came back with message like
this
fdisk cannot partition the disk because
your disk partition table is corrupted or it is "factory clean", do
you want to run cfdisk to partition the disk? <Yes>
<No>
I hit yes and it showes a table with one record: bootable flag
is empty, start sector is 0, size is 8000 MB, type is primary. I let it go
again. It erased the whole disk include the 800 MB Windows 98 area, which I wish
to be preserved.
What I want to do is to build a dual boot machine (I still
need Windows 98 because of DVD software). Can you see what I did wrong and how
should I do it?
Thank you very much in advance.
Jincai Jiang
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