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
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.
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
Don't you just love fs support by MS?!
Well, I can't see any reason for not wanting to flash the bios,
especially, if it will add something as convenient as a bootable
cd-rom. Short of that maybe you can get a hold of a partition magic
floppy? If you have another Linux machine maybe you