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Thanks to all who responded on my problems with
installing Debian on W2K. I've learned a lot since then so am including that
just in case it might prove useful to other newbies. First my installation on 95
was much easier because drive was already in 4 partitions. I just shrunk 95 as
much as possible via fips and then used fdisk to prepare for Debian
installation. My new PC, however, has only one partition, and no fdisk.exe. I
guess that doesn't ship with NT. Someone has suggested using Disk Manager but I
think that with only one partition that won't be of much help. So I guess
there's no easy way to keep W2K, create more partitions, and then install Debian
on them. It looks like I need to buy Partition Magic (which actually needs a web
download to partition W2K).
I really bought this PC primarily for Debian but I
use W2K at work and so it seemed best to get a PC with that installed and then
add Debian, just as I did with 95. Easier said than done.
Thanks again for everyone who's responded.
Ken
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> On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Ken Januski wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I've successfully installed Debian on a pc at work but now have a new home pc with Windows2000. So I thought I'd follow the same setup I did at work on a 95 pc, run fdisk at dos prompt. But W2K doesn't seem to have such a thing. I know this is a very elementary question, and really more related to Windows that Debian, but I have checked FAQ and don't see anything regarding fdisk and W2K. > > > > Can someone give me a clue about preparing W2K for a linux install? Do I need to get Partition Magic? > > > > Thanks much for any help. > > > > Ken > > |