Well....
Windoze is not on this machine. I suppose I can boot up with a
Win98 startup disk, e.g., and try your suggestion. I might even find
out that there is some useful Micro$oft software, after all! ;)
----- Original Message -----
From: "jose orlando t. ribeiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Rusty Carruth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Unknown partiton table
>
> Ooops! about the fdisk part... I mean... try using the fdisk from
> DOS/Win9x... the Linux one is failling already ;-)
>
> About your sugestion Rusty... I won't say nothing... I'm too new in
> Linux to understand that king of voodoo :-)
>
> By the way, thanks for your help about changing my HD from hdb to hdc...
> but until now... no success... I think that the damn thing wants a full
> reinstall... I refuse :-)
>
> Rusty Carruth wrote:
>
> > "jose orlando t. ribeiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> david,
> >>
> >> it seems that your new(?) HD hasn't been formated and doesn't have any
> >> partition created (as a new drive should be).
> >>
> >> Try to use fdisk to create some partition or file-system to make the
> >> system happy and let you add your drive.
> >
> >
> > Thats exactly what he did, and it died.
> >
> > A POSSIBILITY, assuming that the other stuff is right (and beware -
> > I have a feeling that needs to be looked at first!) is to
> > simply say 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc count=1' and that will intialize
> > number zero to zero.
> >
> > But I'd not said that till someone else spoke up saying that the
> > hardware setup looks good...
> >
> > oops, now I've said it! :-)
> >
> > rc
> >
> >
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