John, Your brain is a veritable Horn of Plenty!!! Tell the truth....you're a cyborg, right? That is every geeks dream isn't it? I'm downloading and creating that disk now!!! Thanks for the help, I owe you bigtime. Cleve
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 15:23, John Hebert wrote: > 10/27/2002 13:31, Cleve Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >OK....heres the deal. > >I took my 100GB harddrive and installed WinXP, partitioning 9GB for the > >boot partition and later after it was fully installed, I created a 1 GB > >partition to be used for the swap file. > > > >Then I installed Mandrake 9.0 and created 60GB vfat partition so that I > >could acceess files from either Windows or Linux. > > > >I allowed Mandrake to partition the rest of the drive into / , /usr , > >/home , and swap partitions. Three of them are ext3 and the swap > >partition is formatted however swap partitions are formatted. > > > >All good and simple except WinXP started really flaking out > >sooooooo..... > > Well, I would argue that WinXP would start flaking out regardless of > installing Linux. :) > > >Since I don't know any other way to do it, I trashed the whole thing and > >started over. Removing the partitions with Delpart and doing an fdisk > >/mbr to clean out the master boot record. > > > >Well this didn't remove the Linux stuff. > > > >I installed WinXP again but it wouldn't complete the final stage in > >which it saves the settings.....I assume that this is when the mbr > >record is saved. Tried it again and again. Finally I found the Win2K > >would install, so I did that. Then I installed Mandrake. > >It all works but now Lilo has an entry for not only Linux and NT but > >also for old_NT and old_Linux....this is how I figured out that I didn't > >really clean up the drive from the previous installations. > > > >In the Windows world, Delpart and fdisk /mbr pretty much cleans up > >everything. > >How do I start from a clean slate with Linux? > > You are very close. The UNIX program "fdisk" is what you are looking for. You > should really read up on Linux partitions and fdisk. Start here: > http://rute.2038bug.com/node22.html.gz. If this link doesn't work for you, > see http://rute.sf.net and look at "19. Partitions, File Systems, Formatting, > Mounting". > > You should also check out Tom's Root/Book disk, which is a bootable Linux > system on a floppy disk with all kinds of neat tools like fdisk, etc. See > http://www.toms.net/rb. > > -- > John Hebert > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
