Re: newbie partition question
At work I installed a Window 2K/Debian dual boot.
The steps I took were:
0. Read the Debian Installation Instructions
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.txt
If you're new to Debian you might have been
like me thinking that "installation instructions
aren't really necessary". In Debian, they are.
There is alot of good information just in that
document alone.
1. Install Windows. Partition the drive here
in 2 parts
2. Install Debian Potato V2.2R3. I got a
distribution on CD from Cheap Bytes and
I made one partition for Linux
Hope this helps!
By the way, welcome the fun and sometimes confusing
world of Debian GNU/Linux! Here's a couple of things I
got out of this groups
You should bookmark this sight:
http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/
and look at any mail that is sent by
Will Trillich. He has newbie tips at the
end of all his mail that are very good!
--- phillip <universe@ou.edu> wrote:
> hey,
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> thanks for any help,
> phillip
>
>
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