Re: Install Difficulties
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On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Luke Kearney wrote:
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> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:25:18 +0545 (NPT)
> Ritesh Raj Sarraf <riteshsarraf@users.sourceforge.net> spake thus:
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> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Luke Kearney wrote:
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> > > and to reboot but after a reboot nothing is changed. Current partition
> > > schema looks a bit like this:-
> > >
> > > /dev/hda win2k
> > > /dev/hdb FBSD
> > How can this be a partition list. What you are showing is the list of
> > disks attached.
> >
> > >
> > > I am trying to install Deb on /hdc and /hdd . This may not be a wise
> > Again, you say you're trying to install debian on hdc and hdd.
> >
> > hda -- Primary Master
> > hdb -- Primary Slave
> > hdc -- Secondary Master
> > hdd -- Secondary Slave
> > These are all disks.
> > Partitions in gnulinux (and might be other *nixes too) are like this:
> > /dev/hda1
> > /dev/hda2
> > /dev/hda5
> > /dev/hda6
> >
> > Here hda1 and hda2 are Primary partitions whereas hda5 and hda6 are
> > logical partitions. Do some googling on Linux Partition Scheme.
> >
> > HTH,
> > rrs
>
> you are of course absolutely correct. What I mean to say was
>
> /dev/hda1 win2k
> /dev/hda2 FBSD
> /dev/hda3 <---- where i am hoping to install deb.
>
> So I my difficulty is simply that I don't seem to be able to correctly
> write the partition info to disk. I get an error saying that the
> information was written but could not be re-read and to reboot. From
> there of course I cannot initialize any partitions.
>
> Any further advice is most appreciated.
>
> Regards,
Check the BIOS if it there's any virus protection enabled for disk or
mbr. I remember this issue once on a mboard with such feature.
What partitioning tool are you using ? hopefully fdisk !
Does it give any err msgs when you save your new partition table ?
You can also have a look at tldp.org. There's a howto explaining Windows
+ FBSD + GNU/Linux on a single disk.
HTH,
rrs
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