Hi,
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 12:13:35PM -0500, U. P. wrote:
> Before couple of months i installed RH 7.1, downloaded motorola SM56 linux
> drivers, and surfed the web, few months later, i bought RH 7.2 but when i tried
> to installed those drivers again, they didnt work, the installation ran
> smooth no errors, but it didnt work (i think its because of the new ext3 file
>system, bot no, i
> installed it again with ext2 but it didnt work either, i also tried to down-grade
>the kernel, and
> didnt work either...).
> after little thinking i decided to switch back to 7.1 and wait until the new
> drivers will come out, i started the installation and the something like:
> " A partition type (0) is exist, this version of RH dont support zero partitions,
> this probaly caused by another OS partitioning program, try to use it to fix the
>problem"
> and this occured after i even _DELETED_ the linux partition(s), the same happend
>when i tried
> to install RH 6 and then upgrade to 7, the only expection is in 7.2 which works
>correctly.
>
> i have been through a lot of (re)formating processes, but none of them helped.
I will only comment on this, since I don't know SM56.
If all else fails, and you really want to delete your partition table,
simply do (e.g. from RH's CD in VT2 (<Alt><F2>)):
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=1
(This won't work, actually, for some reasons:
1. You have to make the device yourself
mknod /dev/hda b 3 0
2. I am not sure, but you might have to make /dev/zero too:
mknod /dev/zero c 1 5
3. I don't know if the 'dd' on RH's boot floppy has the option 'count'.
It sure doesn't have most regular other options, including 'if', 'of',
so this might work:
dd count=1 < /dev/zero > /dev/hda
All the above is trivial if you have a good boot/rescue CD.
There was here a long discussion about that lately, so I won't repeat).
____****Note****____
This will delete your entire partition table, not just Linux. Use
with extreme care. There are very few cases where this might be
more convenient than fdisk.
>
> any help will be appreciated.
As others said, give more data. The order of operations is good,
but you should at least give the output of 'fdisk -l' (for the
latter question), and of 'dmesg', 'lsmod', etc., at various points
before and after insmod(8)ing the modem driver.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> =================================================================
> To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
> the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
> echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Didi
=================================================================
To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
