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Re: installing debian on SATA partition



I forgot to mention that the first couple of times, the partition I
was trying to use was formatted as FAT16.




On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:28:15 -0500, Christian Evans
<chrisman81@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently tried installing Debian (sarge and woody) on a new 120gb
> SATA hard drive.  After I set up all partitions, I could not install
> Debian (or Gentoo).  When trying to install Debian, when I get to the
> parition step, it tells me something like, "No partitionable media
> found."  I get the same error when I use the XP disk to partition the
> hard drive.  I tried partitioning and then formatting the partitions,
> but that didn't work either.  Right now, the computer has three
> partitions, with Windows XP on the first one.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>



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