Hi everyone.
I am trying to install mandrake 7.0. Currently I have RedHat 6.1 on my
system, which I am tired of, and want to try this distro. However, the
Mandrake installer says that my partition table is corrupted, and that it
can't read it. It then prompts me that it will "blank out" the bad sectors
if I press ok. If I press cancel, it goes to Disk Druid, or whatever
partition program Mandrake uses.
Needless to say, I have not pressed 'ok' because I don't have any idea what
'blank out' means here. Does it mean ignore, or reformat?
My hard drive setup looks like this.
Jafwin - FAT32 - Windows OS installed - bootable
Linux - Linux native - Redhat 6.1 OS installed
Tmp - Linux swap file
*Windows Extended partition
+audio1 - WinEX - Logical partition
+audio2 - WinEX - Logical partition
+audio3 - WinEX - Logical partition
+audio4 - WinEX - Logical partition
Fdisk under Dos reads all of this fine. The Corel installer reads it fine,
but then crashes on the actual beginning of the installation. RedHat 6.1
Install will not read this, and gives and error. In both Windows and
Linux, right now, all of my partitions are readable and working
fine. However, I cannot afford to lose any data on my Windows Extended
partitions. Obviously, there is nothing in my Linux partition that I have
to keep.
Can someone help me out on this one? Am I going to have to reformat to get
this distro in? What is this 'blank out' messsgae?
Thanks in advance
-Jesse Farmer
