Tony
I have about run out of suggestions. If you have a DOS floppy you might
try using fdisk to formatt you drive. The Mandrake install should be able to
read and work with it. You might also try to run the installation in Expert
or Custom mode and see if it will overwrite the WD partition tables.
If neither of these will work maybe someone else on the list has had the
same problem and can help.
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Coors" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 12:28 AM
Subject: RE: How do I delete all of the partitions?
> Charles,
> I did just that with Data Lifeguard Tools for Western Digital Drives. I
> set up the primary partition for 10MB and made the second partition 630MB.
> Still gave me the error. The 2, 3, and 4 partition tries were done after
> setting up a bootable primary drive. I thought that might be the problem,
> so I used fdisk to remove the primary dos partition and recreate it so
that
> there was no operating system on the disk. I tried that and still got the
> error message. Is there a linux formatting tool that I need to use to
> format the drives instead of Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Tools?
Thank
> you for your help again.
>
> Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 6:31 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: How do I delete all of the partitions?
>
> Tony
> You stated in your org. message that you had also tried with 2 and 3
> partitions. What were you using to do this? Does it allow you to set the
> size of the partition? If it does set the partition size for one partition
> at 10MB or smaller if the program allows. This should leave the remaining
> 630MB as free space and the Mandrake install can use it.
>
> Charles
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tony Coors" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 5:52 PM
> Subject: How do I delete all of the partitions?
>
>
> > How can I delete all of the partitions? I am using Western Digital's
> > EZ-Install which creates at least one partition unless I am mistaken.
So
> > how should I go about deleting all the partitions?
> > Thanks again for the help
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 5:50 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] An error occurred..no available partitions
> >
> > Tony
> > Delete all the partitions and leave the drive as free space then let
> the
> > installation program set the partitions.
> >
> > Charles
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tony Coors" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 5:36 PM
> > Subject: [newbie] An error occurred..no available partitions
> >
> >
> > > I am installing Linux on a Pentium 75MHz system that has a western
> digital
> > > 640 MB hard drive. The only thing I have done is create 1 partition
of
> > 640
> > > MB size on the hard drive. I load driver support for the CD-ROM(48x
ide
> > > cd-rom) then begin installation by inserting my boot floppy and start
> the
> > > computer. The installation program begins installing from the cd-rom.
> I
> > > select the language, select recommended from the type of installation
> and
> > am
> > > then presented with a screen to select my mouse. I select
general(PS-2)
> > > mouse and the next message I get is "An error occurred..no available
> > > partitions." I've tried making 2, 3 and 4 partitions on the drive and
> > still
> > > get this error. What is wrong?? Thank you for the help.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
