Thanks Doug,
At 01:30 PM 28/09/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>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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