Peter Christensen wrote: >Sorry if this question is too basic. I've been following several >newsgroups for a while and haven't seen this situation addressed. > >I have a 3.2 GB hard drive and 16-bit addressing, so it's partitioned >into a C drive of about 2 GB and a D drive for the rest of the space. >I'd like to keep Windows 95 on the C drive while I work on installing >Linux on D. > >>From reading the installation instructions it sounded like I should >create a Swap partition within "D." So I created a system floppy with >the FIPS directory on it. Upon execution it displayed the partition >table showing partition 1 consisting of 2047 MB and partition 2 >consisting of 1047 MB. It asked which partition to split, and I chose >"2." The resulting error message said: "Can't split extended >partitions. FIPS can not yet split extended DOS partitions." > >What should I do? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Why not just delete the D partition? When you install Debian, it will give you the opportunity to repartition the free space; you can make a swap partition then.
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