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Re: Install Difficulties



Luke Kearney wrote:

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.

I've seen this on a USB flash memory card "drive". Of course that's a totally different animal, but the point is that this flash drive had become unusable in Windows, Mac OS/X and in Debian. And when I went to repartition/reformat it, I saw the same symptoms.

So my gut instinct is that the partition table has become so corrupted/mangled/foreign/damaged that the Debian tools can't handle it. But this is just a gut instinct, not experience, talking.

Since you have FBSD installed, you might try its partitioning tools to create a partition (any kind) on /dev/hda3, just to see what happens.

--
Kent



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