Find a distro that has the old text installation on it
(RH 5.2, for instance) and run that. When you get to the
option for fdisk, delete any and all existing partitions of
size or type. Don't forget to "save" the results. You
should then see that there is the whole disk available
to partition. I have seen instances where it was next
to impossible to get rid of NT, but Linux's fdisk will
do it. (If you don't have an old distro, I _think_ that
tomsrtbt has fdisk on it, and you can run that from a
floppy.) Let the group know if this works.
--doug, wa2say
At 11:31 PM 09/27/2000 +0200, you 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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