Cliff Notes:
1. new to slackware
2. installed 9.1 once today
3. want to reinstall but cant remove the old partitions
4. it seems only a fraction of my 9 gig HD is showing up in fdisk because my
older partitions are using up all the space ?




I installed Slackware 9.1 for my first time today. I wanted to start over from scratch and reinstall again so I can install all the packages off of Disk 2 ( I am sure there is a easier way to do that but I couldnt find it). This is where I ran into my problems. I booted off Disk 1 again and proceeded to following the same install instructions
So I went into fdisk to delete the old partitions and redo new ones. I have a 9 gb drive but when I do a "p" in fdisk to print the partition table it says this


I recall having more than 784 cylinders when I first partitioned. I'ved been trying ot find a solutions for hours on how to delete all those old paritions and free back up those 9 gigs so I can re-partition then and install slackware again but I've had no luck. I've tried booting off a win98 disk and doing a fdisk /mbr ( saw someone mention that )

Any help would be great. If you need more info just ask ( I am a beginner so I am not quite sure what else to post ). Thanks !

From your [ code ] post it looks like there are no partitions on your drive.
Are you sure it's a 9GB drive?
Have you looked at the web site for your harddrive manufacturer for a formatting utility?
What does hdparm -ig show?
What does df -h show?
What's in /proc/partitions?

Just some stuff that comes to mind right off.
I'm sure there must be another app that gives more info about your drive, but I don't know what it is off hand.

Aha . It was a 6 gig drive ( I feel so dumb. But hey I'm learning ). I was going by the cylinders being 784. When I would add a new partition I would put +1024 and it would say value out of range. Then I realized after looking back I needed "+1024M". Thanks for the reply. Problem fixed and time to start the install again !