I forwarded your message to the LUG-NUTS mailing list. To join see
http://www.brie.com/linux/ . Partition magic will delete partitions.
If you have a rescue disk , such as the one with debian, you can use
that to boot the system and delete partions. I believe Red Hat has a rescue disk
too. It seems that during installation, the curses based installer will
throw you into fdisk or cfdisk.
Watch your system boot if you are trying to mount a CD in the CD-ROM. You will
notice the kernel reporting it as /dev/hdc /dev/hdd or some other type if
it's an ide cdrom. SCSI CdROMs come up as /dev/sdb etc, because they are
scsi devices. Make sure your Cd is in the CD ROM. I find people mistakenly
think they are mounting the drive. You are mounting the media in the drive
In fact you umount the media before you remove it.
I think you will find that once you do succeed at installing Linux,
that you ought to start over and install it again. In fact you will
probably find that you will develop your system to a point and you will
foul something up beyond your knowledge of repair. A good solution is to
reinstall. As you become more seasoned, you will find yourself being able
to reconfigure and your system without reinstalling or rebooting.
When you reach 360 days uptime on a regularly used system, make sure to
let us know.
brian
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 07:57:45AM -0700, Jason Painter wrote:
> Brian, I attended my first meeting last night and I have to say I was impressed. I enjoyed the enthusiasm everyone seemed to have. Being a network administrator and webmaster, I am quite excited about the options Linux offers.
>
> I need your help though. I have Red Hat 6.0. I have a pentium 233 with 64mb RAM. I have a Future Domain 1800 SCSI adapter with 2 340MB drives attached. I have a IDE CD-ROM. I have a 20MB DOS partition. I am stuck and here's why.
>
> I got the distribution to start once after I made several partitions in Disk Druid. Not having enough disk space, the distribution failed, and I have to start over. Problem is, I can't access the CD-ROM drive. Since I can't access the CD-ROM drive, I can't get to Disk Druid to delete my existing partitions! MS FDISK sees the 20 MB DOS partition and the rest of the space is Extended with logical drives. It's a similar case to NT partitions where I need to use some utility like DELPART.EXE to delete these partitions. Make sense?
>
> 2 questions:
>
> 1. Is there a LINUX FDISK utility? How do I access it?
>
> 2. How do I identify my CD-ROM drive? The error I receive is can't mount CD on /DEV/HDA.
>
> Thanks for your help Brian. If i get past this point I know I am going to like LINUX. I am very interested in Apache web services. I might be trying Slackware shortly.
-- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
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