Before You Begin
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Partitioning the Hard Drive
Outside of choosing which packages, of the many provided by Debian, that
you wish to install on your system, the hardest part of any Linux installation
is determining how to partition your hard disk drive. The following discussion
is an attempt to simplify the problem for the first time user of Debian.
First, what is a partition anyway? Many DOS machines only offer the C: drive
as a valid disk device, but many of these machines have D: devices and more!
Many times these additional  drives  are actually another physical hard drive
connected to the machine, but more often they are not. Many OS installations
(and even some Linux distributions) simply consume the physical disk device
in one large chunk, called a partition. This single partition gets formatted
with the desired file system and then sub directories and files can be created
within that file system.
Using partitions it is possible to divide one physical device into several parti 
tions, and assign each partition a unique device name. In DOS these would be
C:, D:, E:, etc. . . In Linux these are called /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, etc. . . for
the first physical IDE device on the system and /dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2, etc. . .
for the second physical IDE device.






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