Re: Help required

[Steve Tickle <nospam [at] quarndon.co.uk>]

At 14:57 19/01/00 +0000, Al Hudson wrote:

>Yep, sounds like a fine idea to me. Use DOS fdisk to get rid of the last
>partition (or some other tool if you like graphical interfaces ;), and
>don't repartition it. So you should have 2x2Gb partitions, with 2Gb of
>unpartitioned space at the end of the drive. Then install Linux, something
>like SuSE or Mandrake ;), and tell it to use the free space. Most modern
>distros will automagically partition the free space for you, in a fiarly
>sensible manner. Everything else should still work ;)

Cheers, that's what I thought needed doing.

Now the bad news :(
The drive was originally configured when it hung off an old m/b which
didn't have LBA etc and couldn't see all the drive. EZ-Drive fixed that and
I thought that there would be 3 distinct partitions within EZ-Drive, of
which I could delete one. Trouble is, it appears as one partition. If I
look at it with DOS fdisk it sees one 2GB partition and some unpartitioned
space.
I don't know what to do next - I could remove EZ-Drive and get DOS fdisk to
enable large disk access but I'm in mortal fear of stomping over the whole
disk :(

BTW on closer inspection the drive is 5GB with 2x2GB and 1x1GB partitions
and I'll be installing Mandrake 6.0 (haven't got anything later)

Chhers

Steve Tickle
Applications Engineer
Boards Systems
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Quarndon Electronics Ltd
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