Hi, all. I've got one of Bruce's "Gold" CDs and I attempted to install Debian from it for the first time on a friends machine that wanted to check out Linux. He has a rather new Intel PCI motherboard with a 120 Mhz chip. This board is one that has a lot of stuff integrated on the mother board. HD/FD/serial/parallel/game/mouse all on the mother board. The hard drive is a new Seagate 1.08 fast ata drive. It is the only hard drive and had previously been partitioned by DOS 6.22 into 5 equal partitions. I attemped to delete the last partition and remake it into a couple of Linux partitions. cfdisk (I think) is what the menu uses and all went well until I tried to write the partition back out. It hung the machine. I rebooted and, sure enough, it didn't write anything out. I then tried to do it again, but I deleted the last DOS partition and created a small Linux partition at the beginning of the deleted DOS partition. It also hung the machine trying to write the partition table. I noticed that the powersaver features were turned on, so the last time I repartioned, I did it real fast, so the disk wouldn't power down. I didn't know how well Debian would handle the disk being powered down.
So I rebooted and got out of the menu and ran "fdisk". Fdisk did nothing. It was as if I typed "cat". I could see what I was typeing but it never did anything. I couldn't ^C out of it. Nothing worked. I then rebooted and brought up DOS and Windows. They were working fine. Does anyone have a clue as to why I couldn't write the partition table out? Why did fdisk hang? Thanks, Jim. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Lynch, Sales Analyst, Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Southeast District, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269
