| Michael C. 2004-12-04, 5:45 pm |
| ["Followup-To:" header set to alt.os.linux.debian.]
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 11:53:13 +0100,
Sjoerd Mulder
<newsREMOVE@sjoerdmulderANDTHIS.electronischepost.nlANDTHIS>
wrote:
> 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.
>
> Is there a way to solve this while keeping my data and Windows
> installation? How? Will another linux-distribution produce
> the same error? IOW: is it Debian-related or Linux-related?
>
> My HD has a capacity of 160 GB, and partitions are as follows:
> Primary: - windowsxp 19360 MB Extended: - data 39284 MB -
> data2 69994 MB - unallocated 23988 MB
It's has nothing to do with Linux or the distro. On a guess I'd
say that whatever software you used to resize the primary FS to
make room for the others was to blame, unless your machine came
partitioned that way, which I doubt.
On a side note windows won't handle that any better, it might
ignore it, but if the disk fills up you'll like find some corrupt
filesystems.
Back up your Filesystems, rebuild the partition table, and
restore.
Michael C.
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should
be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take
the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve
itself?
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