Don't you just love fs support by MS?!
Well, I can't see any reason for not wanting to flash the bios,
especially, if it will add something as convenient as a bootable
cd-rom. Short of that maybe you can get a hold of a partition magic
floppy? If you have another Linux machine maybe you could make a
bootable floppy disk with the Linux version fdisk?
Larry
Ricardo Zevallos wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I have been trying to install Linux Mandrake in my old computer and now I
> cannot create a Linux partition.
>
> Starting form my 1.2 Gigabyte IDE-HD with Windows NT4 system, I first
> deleted the ancient NT partition and
> created a new PRI-DOS partition (using fdisk).
>
> When I tried to reformat the HD (using the DOS format command) I found that
> only 4M existed !!!
>
> I have tried using MIPS to shrink the DOS partition and create a Linux
> partition (at least 1G) unsuccessfully.
> MIPS gave an error in the boot record.
>
> Then I tried to install Linux Mandrake 7.0 from a diskette using rawwrite
> but I got the "no partition available" error.
>
> I would like advice on how to define a partition for Linux (at least 1G).
>
> The BIOS does not allow me to boot from CD.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta Tester Caldera Linux 2.4
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