On Sunday I was given a Debian 2.1 CD (thanks Andrew) which I have been playing with today. I have a few questions I hope the group can answer:
1) I boot my system using a boot floppy, however the boot floppy takes ages to load (about 3-4 minutes) and seems to only be accessing the floppy drive once every 30 seconds. Any idea what is causing this delay? Once the floppy access stops, the main Linux boot process flies along as normal.
2) A windows question, but I hope someone can answer it. In order to install Debian I repartitioned my 2.5 Gig drive into 1 Gig for Win98 and 1.5 Gig for Linux, using cfdisk during the installation process. I'm now in the process of reinstalling Win98, but when I format the windows drive from a DOS prompt, it will only format the first 500Meg on the 1Gig windows partition. How can I overcome this limitation? If it helps the DOS version of fdisk displays the following partition table:
Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System Usage C: 1 A PRI DOS 1201 FAT16 50% 2 Non-DOS 1221 50%
Thanks for your help.
Ashley
Mr. Ashley T. Howes Email: ashley_t_howes@dial.pipex.com http://www.ydu09.dial.pipex.com
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