9 Jan
2003
9 Jan
'03
6:17 a.m.
If you use the dd command, you'll probably need to run sync afterwards to
ensure that everything gets updated correctly. If the partition table is
really corrupt, a simpler method may just be to run fdisk /mbr (I'm
assuming you have a DOS boot disk or DOS/Windows is on the drive
currently). In either case, see if fdisk (DOS or Linux) can see the
current partition info and remove it on it's own.
clint
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On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Dan Wright wrote:
There's a better way to do this -- get some UNIX
boot disk, start the machine
off from it and run "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1". This will
overwrite the partition table & boot area of hda (in this example) with a
giant NULL! That will REALLY remove any partitioning wankiness that other
programs might have caused, rather then just deleting partitions and leaving
an empty, but possibly still broken, table...
Alain BLANC said:
Try to use FDISK (MS-DOS) or PQMAGIC or simply
the linux toll to erase all
the parts on the disk !
Alan
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From: "Charles E. Fox" <foxvideo(a)wincom.net>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Subject: Fwd: OT Problems loading Linux
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:44:19 +0100
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Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 06:57:39 -0500
To: cctakl(a)classiccmp.org
From: "Charles E. Fox" <foxvideo(a)wincom.net>
Subject: OT Problems loading Linux
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I should prepare an old (6 gig)
hard drive to receive Linux? The installation program keeps telling me
that the partitions are full.
Thanks
Charlie Fox
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