Never heard of LIN2, and can't find anything on it on the interwebs. But your best bet, since you obviously have internet access is grab either a Live CD of some distro, or use the recently updated and released<http://news.softpedia.com/news/Parted-Magic-4-2-Has-Clonezilla-and-Linux-kernel-2-6-30-114387.shtml>GParted live CD to reformat your drive. You can download it here<http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Systems/Linux-Distributions/Parted-Magic-21659.shtml> .
Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:05, cmcanulty <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have an old laptop that had XP and I planned to switch to Linux so I > cahnged the file system to LIN2. Now it won't boot XP and I can't > install Linux. I have tried RedHat, Mepis 8, Ubuntu, Mint, etc and > each one tries to install and each gives a different error. Is there a > way I can wipe the hard drive and start over or any other suggestions? > Thanks I haven't used Linux before except the live version of Ubuntu > years ago. I am computer savvy but not a programmer. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
