hi On Monday 05 March 2001 09:35, Subramaniam Aiyer (CTS) wrote: > hi, > i am trying to install debian linux on my office computer which has > only one hard disk i.e no partitions
whats that supposed to mean ?? have you got only one big partition ?? > can i go ahead with the insatllation or should i downgrade to windowsNT. > one of my friend who was installing red hat had to first downgrade to > NT. Also, the sysadmin gave some reason of file systems. can anybody please > explain further? > thanx, > INDSpeedFreak the only problem i was facing in this constellation was the win2k bootmanager... don't ( i mean it ) install lilo in the mbr... you definetly will run into problems with win2k... what i did was installing lilo in the /boot partition and then get an image of the bootsector and start it with the win2k bootmanager... ( but you should first install lilo on a floppy during debian setup and do the rest when the installations finished ) e.g. you installed lilo on /dev/hda2 you would do the following dd if=/dev/hda2 bs=512 count=1 of=bootsect.deb then you have a file bootsekt.deb in your current directory which you must move on the partition with win2k ( via floppy if the "C:" partition is ntfs ) and add a line c:\bootsect.deb "Debian" to your boot.ini... don't mind asking me for further details before starting ( if you don't know what i was talking about above )... anyways... a backup is still recommended ( win2k can be some kind of strange )... peter ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="InterScan_Disclaimer.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------