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Re: partition problem



On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:53:55PM -0500, no body (likemyong@yeha.com) wrote:
> I am a new user of Debian, and I am having trouble partitioning my
> drive.  When I try to write a partition table the program keeps asking
> me to turn on the boot option on the swap partition when I turn it on
> it asks me to change it again.  I don't know what to do any help will
> be greatly appreciated.

What partitioning program are you running?

What does your partition table look like?  Run and post output, specify
device appropriate to your HD (eg:  /dev/hda, /dev/sda):

    $ fdisk -l /dev/hda

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