Hard Drive Error

Joes2silly · 12-22-2006, 11:43 PM

After having problems getting DSL to run I decided wipe the HD with Darik's Boot and Nuke. Okay, I erased my CD-RW that had the boot and nuke on it (after it did its job) and put DSL on it. It booted up fine, but when I tried to intall DSL I got a error! Now I need to know how to get a linux partion on my HD

Simon Bridge · 12-23-2006, 12:59 AM

What was the error?

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fotoguy · 12-24-2006, 01:06 AM

Dariks boot and nuke will completely remove all partitions and the MBR from the disk, I don't use DSL but I would have thought it would include some disk partitoning tools like cfdisk or fdisk.

If it doesn't then you could download GParted Livecd it's around 30mb in size I think, put that in bootup and setup you partitions from there. Then rerun DSL and install to the hard drive.

Joes2silly · 12-24-2006, 05:45 PM

thanks, im going to download that now so I can install DSL

Patrick Verner · 12-26-2006, 06:11 PM

Try Parted Magic. It's more updated than GParted LiveCD.