Hello, I had Windows XP on a ThinkPad T40. I used partition magic 8 to create a 20 gig empty partition at the end of logical drive E before installing Debian Etch.
Installation went fine. I can boot to both Windows XP and Debian. Everything appears to work fine, but I get horrible warnings if I try to start partition magic. And when I run fdisk -l inside Debian Etch, I get this: Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 71835 36204808+ 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda2 71836 110384 19428224 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda3 110384 155056 22515097+ 83 Linux Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda5 71836 92160 10243768+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda6 92161 108360 8164768+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda7 108376 110384 1012063+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris I don't care about running partition magic or dos fdisk. I don't feel like repartitioning. Is it somehow unstable if I just continue using mainly Etch and boot occasionally into Windows for the odd program? On other threads I've seen people say that Linux doesn't care about the cylinder boundaries. True, or will I eventually have problems even if I don't repartition? Thank you. rd ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]