Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-10 Thread Gertjan Klein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, the thought here is that if a partition is a primary Linux partition rather than a Linux partition sitting in a DOS extended partition, perhaps a virus looking for DOS partitions will leave the LINUX partitions alone. Whereas, viruses would recognise the

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-10 Thread tko
Dale Scheetz writes: On Tue, 9 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question for you... What happens to the Linux partitions sitting in a extended partition if the extended partition gets accidently _trashed_? (like from a virus) I assume it does the same thing as trashing

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, the thought here is that if a partition is a primary Linux partition rather than a Linux partition sitting in a DOS extended partition, perhaps a virus looking for DOS partitions will leave the LINUX partitions alone. Whereas, viruses would

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-09 Thread Gertjan Klein
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Logical partitions created with DOS fdisk are completely unusable by Linux, and often will result in cfdisk reporting a broke partition table. In general, it is wise to assume human error or misunderstanding when problems with partition tables

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-09 Thread tko
Dale Scheetz writes: On 8 Dec 1997, Sten Anderson wrote: That's the problem-^ When You install debian (or most other distributions), you must remove these pseudo-partitions as only DOS understands them. Are you saying

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question for you... What happens to the Linux partitions sitting in a extended partition if the extended partition gets accidently _trashed_? (like from a virus) I assume it does the same thing as trashing a primary partition ... FUBAR

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-08 Thread tko
Gianluca Ryo Trimarchi writes: First of all, sorry my bad English :-) Please help me with these problem: Few days ago I've installed my new hd (conner 1080mb) in my computer.= It's splitted in three partions: 1 primary (dos fat 16) e 2 logical for linux = That's the

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-08 Thread Sten Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gianluca Ryo Trimarchi writes: Few days ago I've installed my new hd (conner 1080mb) in my computer.= It's splitted in three partions: 1 primary (dos fat 16) e 2 logical for linux = That's the problem-^ When

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-08 Thread G John Lapeyre
On 8 Dec 1997, Sten Anderson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gianluca Ryo Trimarchi writes: Few days ago I've installed my new hd (conner 1080mb) in my computer.= It's splitted in three partions: 1 primary (dos fat 16) e 2 logical for linux = That's the

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-08 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 8 Dec 1997, Sten Anderson wrote: That's the problem-^ When You install debian (or most other distributions), you must remove these pseudo-partitions as only DOS understands them. Are you saying that linux can't handle logical

Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-11-27 Thread Gianluca \Ryo\ Trimarchi
First of all, sorry my bad English :-) Please help me with these problem: Few days ago I've installed my new hd (conner 1080mb) in my computer. It's splitted in three partions: 1 primary (dos fat 16) e 2 logical for linux (1 native e 1 for the swap). Both the hds are on the primary Eide channel