ThinKer softly asked, > So I am sitting here looking at the screen (cfdisk 2.11n) and it is > asking me to select a drive to partition with the list of
> /dev/hda > /dev/hdc > and > /dev/hdd. Debian can be confusing if you really do not have much experience with partitioning. I would suggest you read the partitioning HOWTO on over at the www.tldp.org, this is The Linux Documentation Project which is a good place to find stuff if your confused. Basically what this screen is telling you is what hard drive do you want to install Debian on. You mentioned you had three harddrives, under Linux harddrives are under what is called devices. Or /dev when you see /dev/hda it is most likely your first hard drive on your Primary IDE channel. Something like this: Primary IDE Master: 4.1 GB ------>/dev/hda Primary IDE Slave: 1.2 GB------->/dev/hdc Secondary IDE Slave: 4.1 GB------->/dev/hdd This could also be partitions on a specific harddrive, say you split your Primary Master into 3 or 4 partitions then it would be numbered in somewhat like manner /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdc2 /dev/hdc3. So you need to choose what harddrive you want to install Debian on, also once you have selected your harddrive it will ask you if you want to partition it. You will get a lot of opinions on the best way to partition but to keep it simple you will probably want two partitions, a swap, and a root partition. So make sure you have a swap, and a root which for the time being will have usr, home, var, boot on the same partition as well as everything else. Then later you can add more partitions if you want too. Many recommend that swap should be about twice the size as your memory, so stick with that for the time being. If you have a problem you can use google and look up fdisk, cfdisk howtos which might give you some ideas. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]