Hi, everybody..
Here is a question for you. I'm rather new in LINUX (but not in UNIX),
and I encountered a major issue trying to install it, in a multi-OS
environment.
My system is an AMD cpu with all needed to run well (!?)... I have a
8.6GB disk, on which I installed (using W95 FDISK):
primary partition C Fat16 502MB <-w95
extended partition (rest of the disk)
logical D unknown 2GB
logical E unknown 2GB
logical F unknown 1.6GB
logical G unknown 2GB
logical H unknown 198MB
the "unknown" are there simply because I did not yet format those
logical drives (in a first attempt, they were formated, same problem was
encountered). I could install previously NT in partition E, and use dual
boot (W95/NT) without problem. I want to use partition G for Devian and
H for swap.... All seems OK, until I use cfdisk, which gives me an error
about a bad primary partition... escaping to a shell and using fdisk and
p, it shows me a correct C (/dev/hda1) but some strange data for
/dev/hda2. At one point in time, don't recall exactely what happened, if
found the logical partitions, labeled /dev/hda[5-9].. but after that, my
boot sector went to the drain and I had to reload the whole stuff....
Any idea why the extended partition is not correctly decoded by cfdisk?
I also tried to reduce the extended partition to leave free space for
the 2 linux partition, but this did not work either!!!!! Kind of
stuck!!!!
Any hint welcome.
--
Philippe
