Re: Flirting with diaster (a bad installation experience)
Firstly, don't fake a new message by replying to an old one and changing the subject. Everyone gets annoyed because it screws up threading in their email programs. Compose a completely new message instead. Andy Krietemeyer wrote: With the DOS tool, fdisk, I deleted a little used DOS partition from my 8.4 gb hard drive to provide ~2 gb freespace What DOS partition did you delete? I rebooted the machine, thinking it would boot Win98 (and I would have to (temporarily) boot from the Linux boot floppy to get into Linux). No OS booted. An error message along the lines of 'Set up cannot continue, invalid partition' appeared. My guess is that you had partitions created out of order, which might have confused Windows. Can you please provide your partitioning details, including which DOS partition you deleted, and the linux partitions you created in its place? Perhaps I overreacted, got stupid, or was lucky or unlucky, but I rebooted from a Win98 rescue disk I had created and used DOS fdisk to delete the two linux partions to which I had just installed Linux. I then tried a reboot, and thankfully, my Win98 booted and seems none the worse for the experience. Did you try booting Linux with the floppy?
Re: Flirting with diaster (a bad installation experience)
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Andy Krietemeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the DOS tool, fdisk, I deleted a little used DOS partition from my 8.4 gb hard drive to provide ~2 gb freespace and rebooted the Slink rescue floppy into the installation program. As part of the Debian installation, I divided the hard disk free space into 70 mb linux swap (hda4) and 1843 mb linux primary (hda3) partitions. I then installed and configured the base system - uneventfully. I did not select the option 'boot linux directly from the hard drive' - was I under the correct impression that doing so would prevent me from booting Win98? No, not really. For the very first boot after installing lilo, this is true. But all you have to do then is add a record for Windows to /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo (to update the MBR). On the second reboot you will be able to choose either OS (this is what lilo is for, after all). I used dselect to install and configure packages, I configured X. Everything seemed alright. I did not (and don't how I would) install or configure LILO. Is that where I went wrong? I don't recall seeing mention of LILO in the installation dialogs. You probably were almost there. Use lilo, really. It won't mess up your Windows partitions and if you really panic, you can always (like you did) boot from a rescue disk, write a plain MBR and set the bootable flag on your Windows partition. There is no need to actually delete the Linux partitions. I rebooted the machine, thinking it would boot Win98 (and I would have to (temporarily) boot from the Linux boot floppy to get into Linux). No OS booted. An error message along the lines of 'Set up cannot continue, invalid partition' appeared. Can you provide more details of your partitioning sheme? And is your HD set to LBA in the BIOS (should be, but double check)? Perhaps I overreacted, got stupid, or was lucky or unlucky, but I rebooted from a Win98 rescue disk I had created and used DOS fdisk to delete the two linux partions to which I had just installed Linux. I then tried a reboot, and thankfully, my Win98 booted and seems none the worse for the experience. I'd appreciate any insight anyone might have. It may take a while before I get the courage to try reinstalling Debian on a dual OS machine. Try it again right away, good learning experience ;) But first, read the relevant HOWTOs at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/; especially: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+Win95.html (obviously) http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Multiboot-with-LILO.html (more comprehensive than the first one) http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html (background and why you want to use LBA) There might be even more, just look around. -- Philip Lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Flirting with diaster (a bad installation experience)
I attempted to install Slink as dual-boot to Win98 on my Dell PII300 last night, and, I think, narrowly escaped disaster. Here's what I did and what happened. Maybe someone can tell me where I went wrong. I do very much want Debian as a second OS on this machine. With the DOS tool, fdisk, I deleted a little used DOS partition from my 8.4 gb hard drive to provide ~2 gb freespace and rebooted the Slink rescue floppy into the installation program. As part of the Debian installation, I divided the hard disk free space into 70 mb linux swap (hda4) and 1843 mb linux primary (hda3) partitions. I then installed and configured the base system - uneventfully. I did not select the option 'boot linux directly from the hard drive' - was I under the correct impression that doing so would prevent me from booting Win98? I used dselect to install and configure packages, I configured X. Everything seemed alright. I did not (and don't how I would) install or configure LILO. Is that where I went wrong? I don't recall seeing mention of LILO in the installation dialogs. I rebooted the machine, thinking it would boot Win98 (and I would have to (temporarily) boot from the Linux boot floppy to get into Linux). No OS booted. An error message along the lines of 'Set up cannot continue, invalid partition' appeared. Perhaps I overreacted, got stupid, or was lucky or unlucky, but I rebooted from a Win98 rescue disk I had created and used DOS fdisk to delete the two linux partions to which I had just installed Linux. I then tried a reboot, and thankfully, my Win98 booted and seems none the worse for the experience. I'd appreciate any insight anyone might have. It may take a while before I get the courage to try reinstalling Debian on a dual OS machine. Thanks for reading and regards, Andy Krietemeyer Micanopy, Florida
Bad installation :(
Hello: I checked my file system and it's ocuppied more less 60 MB (14%). I know this is a very incomplete installation I have de Debian CD-ROM so i could reinstall or patch. It's recomendable to install all over again? or is more recommendable to patch my actual installation so i could someday have it complete? I have a partition of 500 MB, can i install the complete distribution with this disk size? Thanks Erik __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bad installation :(
I checked my file system and it's ocuppied more less 60 MB (14%). I know this is a very incomplete installation I have de Debian CD-ROM so i could reinstall or patch. It's recomendable to install all over again? or is more recommendable to patch my actual installation so i could someday have it complete? Why do you think that there is something wrong with the installation? Are programs not running properly? It is quite possible to install Linux and have only 60 MB of space taken up. This would be a rather minimal install, but it is possible. Probably, you just need to install some more programs. Try using `dselect' to do this. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
