format hard drive
 

:confused: I have just installed Mandrake 9.2 on a new computer.
I partioned the hard drive so I could run Mandrake & 98se on a duel boot system.
The problem I have is that on installing Mandrake it took over all the hard drive and I cannot find any way to format it to start again.
Could any one advise me on how to format the drive and install 98se & Mandrake 9.2 on a duel boot system.
As I am new to this can you please keep the instructions easy.
Regards Alan:newbie:

Before re-installing/re-formatting I'd suggest you
post the output of
fdisk -l
and
cat /etc/fstab
here ...


Cheers,
Tink

fdisk
 

I tried to fdisk with a 98se boot disc it said I could not delete the main partition while an extended partition existed.
So I clicked on delete extended partion and it said cannot delete as long as logical drives exist, so I clicked on delete logical drives in extended partition and then went back to delete extended partition and again it said cannot delete as long as logical drives exist so I was going round in circles getting nowhere. What is cat /etc/fstab?.
here ...
Does this help?.

with my limited experience with linux it appears that you have to maunually partition the hd to make more then one opperateing system work together and a problem arrises when you install linux and do an auto install.