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| author | Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | 2006-04-27 09:33:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | 2006-04-27 09:33:13 +0000 |
| commit | e503384da56bdeb5bccc946e94c5c1e1b986640a (patch) | |
| tree | 0e6e44f198abd1161519c4db7fbbe40e4e7ba170 /en/preparing/nondeb-part | |
| parent | 2df31b5466368bda8354964b9f162d8c6d78cfa8 (diff) | |
| download | installation-guide-e503384da56bdeb5bccc946e94c5c1e1b986640a.zip | |
Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall (and one by Jens Seidel)
Diffstat (limited to 'en/preparing/nondeb-part')
| -rw-r--r-- | en/preparing/nondeb-part/i386.xml | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/en/preparing/nondeb-part/i386.xml b/en/preparing/nondeb-part/i386.xml index 5509b3d27..3846cec48 100644 --- a/en/preparing/nondeb-part/i386.xml +++ b/en/preparing/nondeb-part/i386.xml @@ -108,8 +108,9 @@ other weird errors in DOS or Windows. </para><para> Apparently, whenever you create or resize a partition for DOS use, -it's a good idea to fill the first few sectors with zeros. Do this -prior to running DOS's <command>format</command> command, from Linux: +it's a good idea to fill the first few sectors with zeros. You should do +this prior to running DOS's <command>format</command> command by executing +the following command from Linux: <informalexample><screen> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX bs=512 count=4 |