Removing W95/NT4/Linux to replace with W98/Linux

Removing W95/NT4/Linux to replace with W98/Linux

Post by jdn » Fri, 22 Jan 1999 04:00:00




>My 1.6Gb drive has a 500Mb primary partition with Windows95 (FAT16), and a
>1Gb extended partition split between NT4 and Redhat Linux. LILO is the
>primary boot loader which in turn calls the NT loader. It's all a bit of a
>mess and I want to trash it all and set it up to dual boot between
Windows98
>and RH5.2.

>My problem is that DOS fdisk (understandably) can't do anything with the
>extended partition and NT can't manage to do anything with the Linux
>partitions.

Why can't NT do anything with the Linux partitions?  On my system, under NT
Server, at least, Disk Administrator shows the Linux partitions as unknown,
but you can delete them anyway.  Haven't used Disk Administrator under
Workstation recently, so maybe that's it?

jdn