On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 12:26:41PM -0700, Greg Strockbine. wrote:
> I have a 14 gig drive I wanted to devote entirely to Debian Linux or
> FreeBSD.
>
> I made the Deb boot floppies, booted up, and got stymied at the
> Partition hard disk step in `cfdisk'.
>
> It showed me the whole disk, which at the time had FreeBSD 3.1 on it.
>
> I figured I needed partitions for
> root = 100 Mb
> swap = 512 Mb
> /usr = rest of disk
Read the installation instructions. From your statements above and
below (largely deleted), you're trying to steamroll through a process
you haven't read up on. That's going to hurt.
There are a couple of really good books for running a Debian install.
_Learning Debian GNU/Linux_ published by O'Reilly, freely available from
their website. There's also a SAMS book, forget the title (gave it to a
friend), which has a nice walk-through -- better IMO than the O'Reilly.
Linux and *BSD have different ideas on how you set up a disk. Under
Linux, filesystems exist within partitions. BSD adds the concept of a
disklabel which needs to be edited, which lies within the BSD partition
itself.
Posting your partition table:
$ fdisk -l /dev/hda # change device as appropriate
...would be helpful.
> Gave up. Went over to FreeBSD, made 2 floppies, followed steps, defaults
> for everything including partitioning. Started a network install, went
> to bed, woke up and rebooted into FreeBSD 4.1.
Cool, you got what you wanted.
Write back if you want to try out Debian again, after you read the docs.
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