Re: Debian Parititioning Trouble
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 09:58:08PM -0400, JakeCatfox@aol.com wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a machine I just built to run Debian. It installs fine,
> but LILO says it cannot install itself on the hard disk due to an error, (I
> forgot what it says precisely, but it says this is a common problem with
> disks over 500mb.) It suggests making a /boot partition at the start of the
> disk, but I do not understand how to do that. I tried installing it in the
> root partition's boot sector and writing an MBR, but the system can't find
> the OS when I boot with it that way.
>
> Does anyone know what I should do?
during the installation, you will come to the stage of
partitioning, use cfdisk to partition the disk. make a small
boot partition, say 20 meg. at the minimum, you can make a
root partition and a swap partition.
or if you want to make a /home and a /usr as well, go ahead.
divide your disk as you see fit, taking into account your
needs.
you haven't specified the size of the disk you are using
or whether this is a single or dual-boot machine - that would
have helped me to get more specific.
if you don't want to reinstall, try booting from your debian
bootdisks and running lilo after you have accessed your
debian system.
sam
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(Sam Varghese)
http://www.gnubies.com
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