Re: Linux install problem

1998-06-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
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

Re: Linux install problem

1998-06-15 Thread damon
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

Re: Linux install problem

1998-06-15 Thread Shanta McBain
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

Linux install problem

1998-06-14 Thread Shanta McBain
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

Re: Linux install problem

1998-06-14 Thread dg
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