Re: Linux install problem
Shanta McBain wrote: Hi I have a HD 350 meg Caviar 2340. I cannot change the partitions. Fdisk says that there are two partition The dos primary and a extended secondary. It reports that there are logical partitions on the secondary. Cant delete the secondary partition as the logical partitions exist. likely the linux primary and swap. It will not delete them as delete partitions dose not see the partitions. Is there a linux tool that will fix the problem? Thanks Shanta Fdisk can delete the logical partitions, but its a separate option (delete logical vs. delete primary). Try DOS's fdisk again, and delete the logical partitions first, then delete the extended partition (DOS won't let you delete an extended partition untill all logical partitions in it are deleted). For the Linux partitions, use cfdisk to create them, not DOS's fdisk. -- Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux install problem
Greets, Fdisk can delete the logical partitions, but its a separate option (delete logical vs. delete primary). Try DOS's fdisk again, and delete the logical partitions first, then delete the extended partition (DOS won't let you delete an extended partition untill all logical partitions in it are deleted). For the Linux partitions, use cfdisk to create them, not DOS's fdisk. FWIW, I've personally found that cfdisk can cope with lots of things that cause DOS/Win95 fdisk to choke badly. For eg. I had a disk with an NTFS psrtition, which DOS fdisk stubbornly refused to delete, no matter what I did and how much I swore at it. Booted with my bo rescue disk, fired up cfdisk, and managed to wipe it out with no problem. There you go, a linux rescue disk is a very valuable tool, even for DOS users! damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Systems Administrator EmpireNET Melbourne, Australia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux install problem
After trying everything that fdisk had to offer I used cfdisk and it did what it was supped to do. Where fdisk fell sort of the mark cfdisk didn't. I am up and running again. Installing with out a cd is a major headache. I have to down load with the windows machine, transfer the file to a disk then into the linux machine. Cant even ftp from the windows machine as the ftp dos not appear to be in the base setup from floppies. Shanta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux install problem
Hi I have a HD 350 meg Caviar 2340. I cannot change the partitions. Fdisk says that there are two partition The dos primary and a extended secondary. It reports that there are logical partitions on the secondary. Cant delete the secondary partition as the logical partitions exist. likely the linux primary and swap. It will not delete them as delete partitions dose not see the partitions. Is there a linux tool that will fix the problem? Thanks Shanta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux install problem
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Shanta McBain wrote: I have a HD 350 meg Caviar 2340. I cannot change the partitions. Fdisk says that there are two partition The dos primary and a extended secondary. It reports that there are logical partitions on the secondary. Cant delete the secondary partition as the logical partitions exist. likely the linux primary and swap. It will not delete them as delete partitions dose not see the partitions. Is there a linux tool that will fix the problem? I think you should try cfdisk first. It's far easier to use, and it displays you the logical partitions within your extended. Another way is to download a low level formatter like DiskManager or EzDrive. As stated by the ATA specification, a hd has to do such a low level format without any problems. Bye Daniel -- Daniel Gross eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hollarstrasse 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-85053 Ingolstadt, Germany -- An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax. -- David Letterman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
