Re: [newbie] bad table partitions in mandrake install

2000-10-14 Thread Jesse Farmer
Thanks to everyone for their advice. I got partition magic, and yes, I did have some errors in the reported sizes of my partitions. However, Mandrake STILL does not seem satisfied with the partition table, and won't read it. Meaning, it still asks me to 'blank out' bad portions. Corel insta

Re: [newbie] bad table partitions in mandrake install

2000-10-14 Thread John Hendrickx
--- Jesse Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fdisk under Dos reads all of this fine. The Corel installer reads > it fine, > but then crashes on the actual beginning of the installation. > RedHat 6.1 > Install will not read this, and gives and error. In both Windows > and > Linux, right no

[newbie] bad table partitions in mandrake install

2000-10-13 Thread Jesse Farmer
Hi everyone. I am trying to install mandrake 7.0. Currently I have RedHat 6.1 on my system, which I am tired of, and want to try this distro. However, the Mandrake installer says that my partition table is corrupted, and that it can't read it. It then prompts me that it will "blank out" the bad

[newbie] bad table partitions in mandrake install

2000-10-13 Thread Jesse Farmer
Hi everyone. I am trying to install mandrake 7.0. Currently I have RedHat 6.1 on my system, which I am tired of, and want to try this distro. However, the Mandrake installer says that my partition table is corrupted, and that it can't read it. It then prompts me that it will "blank out" the