[Gllug] Preparing large hard disk for Debian install

[Taylor James]

Hello all,

I just bought a 180GB hard disk, and partitioned it for dual booting linux
and windows using fdisk.

Having installed windows on the primary partition (80GB), I tried installing
Debian on the second partition but the tool the installer uses to create and
format linux partitions (cfdisk) wont run and gives an error (something
like): "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary > partition 1: Partition ends after
end-of-disk". I'm guessing it just doesn't support large hard disks. So
basically, what tool(s) should I use to prepare my linux partition before
starting the Debain installation? The user-friendlier the better!

Cheers,

-- 
james




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