Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:21:22 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file
>Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 04:38:00 -0600 >From: "phillip ramirez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Well this is what happened. I formatted the hard drive on Monday night >partioned it 8meg for windows 98 fat 32 then the rest for linux.. I then >I copied all the files over to the lphd and plugged it into the libby. >Booted using the floppy and started the instal.. Then I got the error =( >well I slapped the hd back in the desktop so I can us pqmagic and well >it came back unable to format the hd. I then removed all partions and >then tried it again.. No go.. > >Well what I then did was did a fdisk and format and tried it and still >no go.. Looked and found fdisk /mbr to write a new mbr file. I was going to suggest this, but it can totally obiterate access to some partitions if it doesn't find their tables, and set them up again. When I lost a partition with PM, I ended up just resizing things (with help from the PM people), and things came back to life. >then pulled >the case put the dard drive in the desktop no other disks besides the >orig and using the desktop to load mandrake on the thing. I am loading >m70 as I could not find a working m71 iso.. > >Anyway after I do this I will put the orig hard drive back in the >desktop and boot 98 and then copy the cd to the new partion I wil create >and also load pqmagicboot.. I will also try to load qnx and beos > >Hey a guy can play cant he? > >Think I did get the mbr fixed though cause it was starting to take an >install before I started watching a couple dvd's and havent moved the >cable back over... Need to get me kvm switch ;-) So I guess you didn't loose any partitions, or any important ones. Is this a HDD you're using exclusively for Mandrake Phillip? Matt _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
