> OK I got as far as the place where you set up partitions but that's it.
> Here's what my 5.1 gig hard drive looks like
> Primary partition
> C: Win95 system files and IE4 502 MB FAT16
> Extended Partition
> logical drive D: Windows programs, my files, game demos, other programs
> 2500 Mb
> FAT32
> (I left the rest of the space unpartitioned in anticipation of Linux
> When I start disk druid to set up partition types it shows 5 partitions
> hda1 502Mb
> hda2 4416 Mb
> Hdd1 900,000 Mb
> hdd2 800,000 Mb
> hda3 400,000 Mb
> I select Hda2 and I try to change the type to Linux but it says the
> current type
> is unknown 0xf.
> What is wrong? Is my Hard drive broken?
hda2 *should* be the extended partition created by windows...under
DOS/windows way of doing things, nothing actually is in the extended
partition...it is simply a place for "logical" partitions to go
(hda5-->) The 0xf has got me, usually linux's fdisk will detect it as a
"5" extended...
Forgive the crudity but this is sort of how it is...
*---------------*-------------------------------------------------------*
Primary Extended
*------------*----------------------------*-------------*
Logical 1 Logical 2 Logical 3
I hope that makes sense ;)
Quote:> 2 more notes:(1) The last few clusters on the hard drive are bad. Would
> that cause the problems I listed. (2) Also Hdd isn't really that big!
> It's just an LS-120. Would that cause the problems?
Could do, what kernel are you trying to install? The LS-120 will report
a capacity of 132Mb to the OS...note that there has to be a disk in it
for anything to work...were you planning on leaving a superdisk in the
LS-120 and installing a portion of your linux on that? You'll need
kernel 2.0.34--> to get proper recognition of your LS-120...you can't
boot from it (yet) from Linux even if your BIOS says you can.
'Later
Peter
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