On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Richard Hall wrote: : After doing a low-level format of the hard drive and running a : verification check without complaint, I am unable to install Debain : because when the installation program runs fdisk to set up the swap : partition, it immediately chokes, saying "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary : partition". I can't believe that the hard drive is bad, as it worked fine : under NT before the formatting, and the SCSI disk utilities detect no : problems. What can I do?
Use alt-f2 to get the cli and use fdisk rather than cfdisk. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
