On Thursday 24 January 2002 11:59 am, Bruce Burhans wrote: [snip] > > I'll probably just re-install, putting XPernicious on a 10G primary > partition, and Debian on a 10G extended partition with /, Home, and Swap > on logical partitions. Am worried about that "boot must be on first 1024 > cylinders" thing, though......... > I appreciate the advice very much. Am re-reading Debian Install and > attempting to get all the driver and hardware info, which Gateway > soesn't seem to want to part with..... >
before you reinstall, run dmesg. it will give you a lot of information about the system that might make the reinstall less tedious.