Re: partitions created with partition magic.
Hi,
Lucky I didn't read the doc before attempting to install Debian using PM :) or
I woulda have had a tougher time resizing all my partitions to get Linux in
:)
I don't know if there are possibilities of problems (and I still haven't gone
thru the link, will do that in a while) however all I can cite is that I've
used PM to install Deb 2.2 and 3.0 on different machines without any problem.
However I'm sure if u don't have too much fancy resizing to do then parted of
Deb fdisk shouldn't be too tough to use.
Bye for now
On Monday 07 Apr 2003 9:58 am, you wrote:
> > I've installed Debian 3.0 on a partition created by Partition
> > Magic for XP
> > without any problems at all (don't recally the version of PM
> > but i don't
> > think it was the latest).
> > Prior to this too I've installed earlier versions of Debian
> > using such
> > partitions and haven't had a problem so I don't think you
> > need to worry.
>
> This is interesting, because the latest iteration of the desktop users
> guide for debian, formally the proginy users guide, talks about this in the
> section on installing debian.
>
> http://cafecomputer.com/guide/ch-instpdebian.en.html
> [Note]
> Linux partitions created using PartitionMagic are incompatible with the
> Debian install program. If you have any, delete them and re-create the
> partitions using parted or Debian fdisk.
>
> ????
>
> Mat.
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