Re: [newbie] Formating IDE HD

2000-10-09 Thread Ricardo Zevallos
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

Re: [newbie] Formating IDE HD

2000-09-28 Thread Doug McGarrett
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.

Re: [newbie] Formating IDE HD

2000-09-27 Thread Larry Hignight
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