On 6/23/05, Ben Steeves <ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 6/23/05, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > booted into windows one last time and used Partion Magic 8 to erase > > the /boot and / partions. Now the entire 20 gigs is one big partion. I > > told DiskDruid to erase everything on the disk, and create a 100 meg > > /boot, 12000 meg /, and 8000 meg /home. > > - I tried with and without the option linux ide-nodma as per > > suggestion on fedorafaq. No difference. > > Try re-doing the partitioning using fdisk instead. In Anaconda, when > you get the option to manually or automatically partition, switch to > virtual console 2 (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and type "fdisk /dev/hda" . Set up > your partitions the way you want, quit out of fdisk, and reboot if it > says anything about being unable to write the partition information or > that the kernel will use the old partition table until reboot. If you > don't need to reboot (or after you reboot), use Disk Druid to set your > partition labels and mount points normally, but keep the partition > setup as you've defined in fdisk. > > -- > Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx > The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx > against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 > http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves > I'll go try that now. I just tried to format the entire HD in knoppix, but I could not mount the disk. I see hda1 and hda2. In advance, if I run into problems, how could I go about formating the HD in knoppix? Dotan
