Re: Linux install problem

1998-06-15 Thread Shanta McBain
After trying everything that fdisk had to offer I used cfdisk and it did what it was supped to do. Where fdisk fell sort of the mark cfdisk didn't. I am up and running again. Installing with out a cd is a major headache. I have to down load with the windows machine, transfer the file to a disk the

Re: Linux install problem

1998-06-15 Thread damon
Greets, > > Fdisk can delete the logical partitions, but its a separate option > (delete > logical vs. delete primary). Try DOS's fdisk again, and delete the logical > partitions first, then delete the extended partition (DOS won't let you > delete an extended partition untill all logical

Re: Linux install problem

1998-06-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
Shanta McBain wrote: > > Hi > > I have a HD 350 meg Caviar 2340. I cannot change the partitions. Fdisk > says that there are two partition The dos primary and a extended > secondary. It reports that there are logical partitions on the > secondary. Cant delete the secondary partition as the logica

Re: Linux install problem

1998-06-14 Thread dg
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Shanta McBain wrote: > I have a HD 350 meg Caviar 2340. I cannot change the partitions. Fdisk > says that there are two partition The dos primary and a extended > secondary. It reports that there are logical partitions on the > secondary. Cant delete the secondary partition as

Linux install problem

1998-06-14 Thread Shanta McBain
Hi I have a HD 350 meg Caviar 2340. I cannot change the partitions. Fdisk says that there are two partition The dos primary and a extended secondary. It reports that there are logical partitions on the secondary. Cant delete the secondary partition as the logical partitions exist. likely the linux