Re: newbie partition question
thanks for the quick responses...
the thing is, is that i used fdisk to make the original partitions... but
then cfdisk won't recognize them. i'm guessing i need a newer version of
the install... perhaps something about this large disk and UDMA. i really
have no idea why cfdisk thinks my partition table is corrupt.
phillip
> 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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