[Sheflug] (Fwd) Re: You need Linux help?

["Foz" <nospam [at] mmu.ac.uk>]

Hi one of my freinds is in a bit of trouble with Corel Linux:
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I partitioned my hard disk with windows98 fdisk to create a  windows 
partition of 5 Gb. Everythig was fine with the windows  partition, it 
staryed up as normal into windows98. 

I then inserted the Corel Linux disk and restarted my computer. I  was 
then confronted with various screans then got to the main  menu. I wanted 
Linux to take over ther rest of the free space on my  Disk (about 1.5 Gb) 
so I chose that option. I did not creat a Linux  partition as the option 
on the menu said take up the rest of the free  space on the disk. When I 
clicked this option and clicked OK. I  came to another screan which said 
somthing like you want Linux  to take up x amount of free disk space, the 
x amount was about  1.5Gb, so everthing looked ok. So I clicked instal. 

It started to in stall Linux on to my computer but the computer  
restarted. Linux had not finished being installed, it had done about  1%. 

After this had happend I could no longer get into the Linux menu  screan 
on the CD rom. So I took out the disk and restarted my  computer and the 
message 'Invalid Partition Table' came up on  screan and then stoped. So I 
used Windows98 startup disk to look  at the partition table using fdisk, 
but an error came up 'Error  Reading Disk' and could go no further into 
fdisk. 

So at the dos prompt I typed in 'fdisk /status' and this showed me  the 
status of my partition table. 

It said that I had a 6.5 Gb partition, a 5 Gb partition (Windows c:),  and 
an 18.9 Gb partition on my Hard Disk. My Heard disk is only  6.5 Gb big. 

So I was hopeing that you may know how to correct this problem  or know 
sombody that does. If not thank you for offering to help. 
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Any ideas would be most helpful

Cheers


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Paul Aspinall - Manchester Metropolitan Uni
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