Re: Bad primary partition
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.
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