OT Problems loading Linux

From: Clinton Baker <clint_at_mutantindustries.com>
Date: Thu Jan 9 14:17:01 2003

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

-- 
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
> 
> > Reply-To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> > From: "Charles E. Fox" <foxvideo_at_wincom.net>
> > To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> > Subject: Fwd: OT Problems loading Linux
> > Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:44:19 +0100
> > X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9
> > 
> > 
> > >Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 06:57:39 -0500
> > >To: cctakl_at_classiccmp.org
> > >From: "Charles E. Fox" <foxvideo_at_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
> > >
> > >                                 Charles E. Fox Video Production
> > >                                         793 Argyle Rd.
> > >                                 Windsor Ontario Canada N8Y 3J8
> > >                                 519-254-4991    foxvideo_at_wincom.net
> > >                                 Check out the "Camcorder Kindergarten"
> > >                                         at http://chasfoxvideo.com
> > 
> > 
> >                                  Charles E. Fox Video Production
> >                                          793 Argyle Rd.
> >                                  Windsor Ontario Canada N8Y 3J8
> >                                  519-254-4991    foxvideo_at_wincom.net
> >                                  Check out the "Camcorder Kindergarten"
> >                                          at http://chasfoxvideo.com 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> - Dan Wright
> (dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
> (http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
> 
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