Re: [newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition

2000-11-22 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote: > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:54:13 -0800, Alan S wrote: > >OllyI can think offhand of two basic approaches. > > > >One would be to boot up on your other Linux system, login > > as root and use fdisk to delete partition 4 and then log > > out and reboot with the installa

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition(Correction)

2000-11-22 Thread skidley
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote: > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:11:34 -0600, I wrote: > > > > > In summery, I will say I am not happy with the fact that I > >have no separate Var and home, and all the other things I like to do > >with partitions...I sadly miss the Fdisk option of

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition(Correction)

2000-11-22 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:11:34 -0600, I wrote: > > In summery, I will say I am not happy with the fact that I >have no separate Var and home, and all the other things I like to do >with partitions...I sadly miss the Fdisk option of Helios 6.1 and >doubt that I will be able to live without a

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition

2000-11-22 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:54:13 -0800, Alan S wrote: >OllyI can think offhand of two basic approaches. > >One would be to boot up on your other Linux system, login as >root and use fdisk to delete partition 4 and then log out and >reboot with the installation CD and let it do the >partitionin

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition

2000-11-21 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote: > Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:45:50 > > I am sitting here in trouble with my penguin, > > While preforming a MDK 7.2 expert installation (Hey,..no > smirking) 8-) I cannot make anything go into the Linux > extended partition with this installer? > > I have a 2g dos