format hard drive

trackrat · 02-25-2004, 01:49 PM

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

Tinkster · 02-25-2004, 01:53 PM

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

Cheers,
Tink

trackrat · 02-25-2004, 02:02 PM

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?.

skatcat31 · 02-25-2004, 10:40 PM

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.