Re: newbie partition question
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:29:54AM -0700, phillip wrote:
> i just started installing debian 2.1, but everytime i go to partition the
> drive, cfdisk gives me this error about a "bad primary partition" Then I
> get a message about how my partition table is either corrupt or my disk is
> 'factory clean'.... it requests to 'wipe my disk's current partition table
> and run cfdisk again'. I did this once and lost windows (poor me).... i
> could only boot to linux with lilo.
You didn't actually lose the windows installation, just the master boot record,
which is a handful of bytes at the start of the disk. Dos needs it to boot.
> so i'm starting over
>
> i've used fdisk to partition the 40G drive into 10G primary and 10G
> extended... thus 20G left over... which I'm not going to partition til
> later, i guess. but I'm still getting this same error... should i just let
> cfdisk wipe out my current partition table?
In the past, there were some problems with cfdisk and new disks.
Maybe it is better to use plain fdisk instead of cfdisk. Switch to the
second virtual console with leftalt-f2 (leftalt-f1 brings you back to
the installer menu) and type "fdisk /dev/hda". Press 'm' for help.
If all fails, maybe the 2.2 boot disks are better prepared for big disks.
> thanks for any help,
> phillip
>
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