[newbie] large hard disk

2000-10-16 Thread Joseph Bourque
A few months ago I bought a Maxtor Diamondmax 40 gig hard drive.  I installed it with Windows 98 using the included Maxblast Plus software floppy.  The software included a BIOS overlay called EZ BIOS.  Everything installed correctly and gave me two 20 gig partitions labeled D: and E:  Whenev

[newbie] LILO hangs

2000-10-16 Thread Joseph Bourque
I'm having hard disk problems and for reasons that are too lengthy to explain I need to completely remove both Windows and Linux from my system.  I've reformatted my second drive where Linux was installed, but when I reboot, LILO tries to come up then hangs with just the first two letters L