partitioning
am trying to install mandrake linux 10.1 onto my pc that has a 160 GB drive with windows on it as far as 137 MB and a 80 GB drive that i want to use as the mandrake disk but the problem is that on installing it keeps telling me that there is an error: it says invalid partition list when i try and format the linux partions i have just created for installing onto. do i have to do a total reformat of the drive maybe low level format ?
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No, not really. You should just make them the correct Filesystem type and then format them. They should be ext2 or ext3.
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done it but correction is say invalid HDD description and it does this to anything i try say what abbout running the knoppix CD and seeing if i can prepartition and the install
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Why don't you give us a partition list first. Then we can see what file formats you have setup.
fdisk -l KC |
i think i did :
am trying to install mandrake linux 10.1 onto my pc that has a 160 GB drive with windows on it as far as 137 MB and a 80 GB drive that i want to use as the mandrake disk so therefor on the 80 GB HDD that has no partitions i am trying to make a linux system and swap partition is that clear enough ? |
Re: partitioning
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Still, if you could give us some fdisk output on your current partition scheme like below, it would really help Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5170 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 4079 30837208+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 4148 5170 7733880 83 Linux /dev/hda3 4080 4147 514080 82 Linux swap KC |
say could the fct that it is on the secondary be a problem ? i just disconected the 160 G leaving only the 80 GB in question and tryed erasing the whole disk and doing just one partition but it still said it perhaps i should try it as the master of the first IDE channel ?
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