Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, J D wrote:
>
> > did you partition your hdd? or do you have an empty hdd? are you running
> > any other os's? if you can, provide a little more info, and we'll see what
> > we can think of.
>
> Thanks for you mail, also to Eric!
>
> Yes, there were no partitions available. I had good luck to have also
> SuSE here in order to format my hard drive.
>
> How would I be able to format my hard drive without any tool except
> Mandrake CD-ROM? The graphical installer provides partitioning hard
> drives befor installing, not so the text installer... :-(
If you have SuSE installed, then boot into this OS and create the filesystems or
partitions for your Mandrake configuration using the fdisk available with SuSE.
Don't format the filesystems (the Mandrake install program should at least be
able to do this); only create the partitions you want. If you want Mandrake on
a single, large filesystem, then you'll only need to create one partition with
fdisk.
In fdisk, choose the m option, to see the available commands. Adding or
creating a new partition is probably unchanged and n.
Are you sure the Mandrake text install doesn't provide partition
creation? Check again.
Also, why isn't the gui install not working? Where does it fail?
mike
>
>
> Regards,
> Claus.
>
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