Re: [COMP] Redhat 6.0 install error msg

> How do I do that?- so far the only floppy imaging I've done is the
> bootdisk.com thing.
> I think it uses rawrite? I dont know how to do it manually, bootdisk.com has
> detailed instructions so you can do it without knowing how it works.
> I think I did find something like a disk image while checking out redhat.com,
> but I wasnt sure it was for a boot floppy.

That's exactly it-- you use rawrite.exe to write the image to the disk.

> <You can't remove an extended partition until you remove the logical drives,
> and
> you can't remove a primary partition until you remove the extended.  Anyway,
> linux fdisk, I believe, can do all of the above.>
>
> Now thats an idea, I couldnt remove the partitions with DiskDruid, so I'll
> try linux fdisk instead.
> And the WD hdd was a refurbished one that I got a little cheap at a local ma
> & pa store, so that may be the problem.

Hmm. :)

> I could wipe an old Caviar 1.2 gig that is pio mode 1 and has ezbios
> currently on it. Now I have to find out how to remove ezbios from it. Steve
> had that problem, will email him if I cant figure it out.

Well, you won't need ezbios for Linux, so you can just blow that drive away and
slap the OS on there. :)

> My big WD 13g has my kids office97 and other educational software on it so
> its off limits to my fooling around with (the family is kinda irritated at my
> expiriments that end in crashes)

Ah-hah.  Know what yer saying. ;)

John



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