You can use a diskmanager to reinitialize your disk, then recreate your partitions using fdisk, gparted, or any partitioning tool.
It would have been wise to stick with known and tested filesystems like EXT3 and ReiserFS. The "LIN2" that you are referring to might be GPFS and referring to partitions gpfs-lin1 and gpfs-lin2 which are normally used for multiclustered environments and not ideal (not suitable ? ) in your case. For desktop, laptop, common use file systems I'd advice (again) to stick with Ext3, ReiserFS, or some other filesystems that are available. You can never go wrong with these. On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:05 PM, 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. > > > > -- Part-time SysAd, full-time Dad, part-time netNinja CNS, ACFE, FOSS Advocate and Consultant Registered Linux User #400165 http://www.rm2media.net http://baudizm.blogsome.com http://linuxblazon.wordpress.com http://3x-comic.blogspot.com (NEW!) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
