> Regretably you will come across the odd smartarse that just say's RTFM in a > reply to a question you've asked. (Some peoples ego's get the better of > them) but if it's all spelled out clearly in the original post then it's > there in black and white then nobody can 'get out of their tree' about the > question and the responses! > > Anyways that all said, welcome to linux land we hope you enjoy your stay :-) > > Bry <- from Geordieland where everyone is friendly and approachable. > Ok, Here's where i am at, I boot using the rescue CD, I get to the shell, I type these in this order.... sfdisk -d /dev/hda > MyPartitionTable.txt i then type ls to make sure it's there, and it is i then type cat MyPartitionTable.txt it then spit up the information about my partition table. after this, I *THINK* I am suppose to type sfdisk --no-reread -H255 /dev/hda but when i type that, it just spits out the command help page. i even tried, sfdisk --no-reread --force -H255 /dev/hda and still spits up the command options page. Thanks Mathew