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Author Re: newbie: partition error
Michael Heiming

2004-12-04, 7:45 am

In alt.os.linux Sjoerd Mulder <newsREMOVE@sjoerdmulderandthis.electronischepost.nlandthis>:
> Hi all,


> I'm an average WinXP user and wanted to give Linux a try. Therefore I'd like
> to install Debian as a second OS on my system. Unfortunately, the
> installation procedure gives this error: "Bad primary partition 1. Partition
> ends after end-of-disk" and doesn't allow me to use the existing partition
> table.


AFAIK, debian isn't exactly the distro for an "average WinXP
user". I'd suggest trying something like Mandrake, Fedora, Suse,
or other (www.distrowatch.com) perhaps the installer works
better.

Good luck

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