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Re: partitions created with partition magic.



Recently been using SystemCommand with great success and the accompanying boot manager is pretty good too.

Jeetu Golani wrote:
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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