Re: [newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-03 Thread Steven Kinch
On Sun, 03 Dec 2000, you wrote: Not that I can't recover, but I would like to get some insight to what I did wrong. Last night I decided to install mandrake 7.2 on my system that has 2 hdds with 3

Re: [newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-03 Thread John Slezak
Thanks for the info. I've already went crazy deleting paritions left and right. I thought I would be able to just reinstall nt, but it goes thru to doing the exhaustive examination of the hard drives and then tells me I need to reboot and start over. I get to here everytime. Then I've gone in

RE: [newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-03 Thread Steven Kinch
OK. Let me know how it goes. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Slezak Sent: 03 December 2000 20:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hosed my system Thanks for the info. I've already went crazy deleting paritions left

Re: [newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-03 Thread jack dugas
John Slezak wrote: Thanks for the info. I've already went crazy deleting paritions left and right. I thought I would be able to just reinstall nt, but it goes thru to doing the exhaustive examination of the hard drives and then tells me I need to reboot and start over. I get to here

Re: [newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-03 Thread Jo
linux should be on a computer by itself without be on the same drive or computer for that matter.the bios has to see which OS it is going to boot. Nothing but trouble is going to happen.. jack. I have 3 OS's on my portable and they boot without interfering with each other. Nothing bad

Re: [newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-03 Thread Jo
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 12:40:47 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the info. I've already went crazy deleting paritions left and right. I thought I would be able to just reinstall nt, but it goes thru to doing the exhaustive examination of the hard drives and then tells me I need to

Re: [newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff Dickman
I have MDK and Windows ME on the same system at home, and MDK and Windows 2000 on the same system at work. Both run off the same hard drive. IMO, The bios doesn't care which OS it's going to boot. So long as the MBR or the first sector of the disk contain a boot loader it doesn't matter.

[newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-02 Thread John Slezak
Not that I can't recover, but I would like to get some insight to what I did wrong. Last night I decided to install mandrake 7.2 on my system that has 2 hdds with 3 paritions on each. The last parition on both hdd's was a software raid 0 from NT. The first 2 paritions on each hdd had a

RE: [newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-02 Thread Jeff Dickman
, 2000 4:44 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Hosed my system Not that I can't recover, but I would like to get some insight to what I did wrong. Last night I decided to install mandrake 7.2 on my system that has 2 hdds with 3 paritions on each. The last parition on both hdd's

Re: [newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-02 Thread Romanator
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Slezak Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 4:44 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Hosed my system Not that I can't recover, but I would like to get some insight to what I did wrong. Last night I

Re: [newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-02 Thread Charles A Edwards
- From: "John Slezak" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 7:43 PM Subject: [newbie] Hosed my system Not that I can't recover, but I would like to get some insight to what I did wrong. Last night I decided to install mandrake 7.2 on my system that