On Wednesday 29 May 2002 03:43 am, dfox wrote: > > I've tried Linux fdisk, cfdisk and parted, fdisk appears to work in > > deleting the type 5 partition but when I try to reinstall it appears > > again, i.e. I format select /hda1-5 for example but in the next stage it > > will show that it is formatting /hda6. > > An extended partition is jut a container for other partitions, and is > in itself not directly addressable/formattable. You can create partitions > inside the extended partition and format them, like hda6. But in order to > have a /dev/hda5, you'd first need to have /dev/hda1 through /dev/hda4, > in other words, four other (primary) partitions. As an IDE drive cah only > do four primary partitions, the usual scheme (for those who need more) > would be to format/partition /dev/hda1 through /dev/hda3, make /dev/hda4 > an extended partitino for the remainder of the disk, and then parition > additional partitions inside /dev/hda4. > > I'm not sure why it reappears. If you use linux fdisk and delete the > partition, you should be able to create primary partitions on that drive, > format, and continue.
fdisk has indeed cleared all partitions, my problem is apparently with a corrupt MBR, I get LILO Descriptor checksum error post install, looks like I've got some research to do to find out what is wrong and how to fix it, so I guess I've got some serious RTFM ahead of me :-)
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