J D wrote: > okay, i've tried several things to fix my major problem. nothing has > worked. so how do i format my linux partition? last night i got bored and > tried rm -rf / as i read to never do this unless i wanted to > reinstall linux. but it didn't work. help! > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Okay, I don't truley know if this will help your MAJOR problem,but as a newbie I have had times where I too did somthing somewheres that sent my partitions kablooey.Tried lots of stuff that did n't work and wound up 'reinstalling" but installing another distro ;like Caldera,and letting it clean up the partitions when it installed,then I went back and reinstalled mandrake after the fact when I saw that the Caldera was successful. I've done this a few times and it has worked for me ,but then I/m a newbie,and only came up with this on instinct,couldn't tell you if it did anything to my machine or not .Don't think it has since I now have a nice Mandrake 70 install thats working to ,my satisfaction .Good luck if you decide to try this. Bill
