On Wednesday 19 January 2005 22:26, Timothy Murphy wrote: >James McKenzie wrote: >> If you want FDISK, boot using linux text from the installation >> line. > >How does that give you fdisk? > Do a ctl+alt+F2, which will get you another virtual shell in most cases. You can use fdisk to second guess DD from there. Or you can even do the various formatting, journal installing, and labeling operations from there, I just did it tonight, but the install bombed anyway, claiming it was out of space when it had 44 GB to go before it would have been full. Go figure. I said screw it and shut it down. Tommorrow is another day. >-- >Timothy Murphy >e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie >tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 >s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.