"Ashley T. Howes" wrote:
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:
- 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.
dunnon about this...
- 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:
turn on LBA in the bios ;)..
Scoobz