Re: Re: [Sheflug] Re: Odd partition table fault

[Steve Tickle <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:13 20/09/02 +0000, David Bottrill wrote:
>Excuse the HTML post but I'm away from home and I am stck with using webmail.
>
>I've had odd problems like this and usually have found that creating a 
>blank dos partition table using "fdisk" seems to work OK. I was trying to 
>install SuSE 8.0 on an old laptop last weekend so I used fdisk from Toms 
>rescue disk to write a new parition table and a create a swap partiton in 
>order that I could get SuSE 8 to install.

Just in the process of install SuSE7.0 at the moment. It all seems to be 
going sweetly so hopefully, when I upgrade it to SuSE 8.0, everything will 
still work.

Actually, I had a problem with another box which seemed to install OK but 
then threw up all sorts of spurious and apparently unconnected problems. As 
a "clutching at straws" kind of reaction, I installed SuSe 6.3 (couldn't 
put my hands on the SuSE 7.0 disks at the time) and then upgraded to SuSE 
8.0. Everything seems to be fine and in fact much smoother than some other 
boxes I have.


Steve

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