I also just purchased a used Dell Pentium II, 450MHz, 128MB RAM, 8G hard drive off of EBay.
When attempting to install LINUX on the machine, I am unable to partition the hard drive. I recieve an error message at the beginning of the partition process that says something about the disk being too corrupted and also receive the following error message when I try to Auto Allocate:
[Writing of partition table failed at /usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table.pm line 442]
I am new to this, and would like any assistance possible. But go easy on me, cuz I'm just starting.
Thank you!
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