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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 23:57:05 -0400
From: Sean Glass <sean.glass@yale.edu>
To: ccf4@pantheon.yale.edu
Subject: help with linux
Clark,
Can you post this to the linux list? Also, can you add me to the
list. Thanks very much.
-Sean Glass
Drew,
Thanks for your suggestions. I've tried for hours and can't seem to get
anything to work. I created a redhat rescue disk, and when I try to run
that it doesn't have cfdisk. when I create a slackware boot disk and rescue
disk it just doesn't work (the rescue disk seems to have problems. Do you
have any other suggestions? Do you know anyone with partition magic? I went
through the install until I got to diskdruid and saw that what has happened
is that one of the partitions was changed from dos16>=32m to win95...
That's the partition that win98 no longer recognizes!! This is so frustrating.
-Sean
At 02:32 PM 10/10/99 -0400, you wrote:
I'm not really familiar with Red Hat... I use Slackware. Anyway, you can
fix your Windows partitions easily by booting from an emergency linux boot
disk. Hopefully Red Hat supplied one... if not, you can use
Slackware's... Just go to their web site (www.slackware.org (or .com))
and download a boot disk image (probably the "bare" one if you have an
IDE hard drive), and the "rescue" root disk image. Then when you boot
with those two disks, you can run "cfdisk" and change the partition types
back to FAT32. As long as you haven't changed anything with DOS fdisk,
your files will still be intact.
As for your problem with booting into Linux with your boot disk, I don't
know... My best guess would be a defective boot disk, and you should make
another.
I hope this helps!
- Drew
> At 05:15 PM 10/9/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Please I need help ASAP
> >
> >
> >On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Sean Glass wrote:
> >
> > > I really need some help from the linux gurus out there.
> > >
> > > I tried to install Red Hat Linux 5.2 this morning.
> > >
> > > 1. At the end of the installation it kept giving me an error when trying
> > > to set up the boot install thingy (I can't remember the exact name)
> > >
> > > 2. I thought I had used disk druid correctly, but now when I start
> > > windows, the dos logical drives where all my applications had been
> > > installed are no longer available and thus I can't run anything. When I
> > > look at them using fdisk, it looks like the partition was changed to
type
> > > unknown (I assume linux). I never at any point told it to do this. Is
> > > there some way I can fix this?
> > >
> > > I also can't boot into linux even using the boot disk I created during
> > > installation. When I try it does this
> > >
> > > Loading OS...
> > >
> > > L 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 ....
> > >
> > > until I force restart.
> > >
> > >
> > > I could really use some help. Thanks,
> > > Sean
> > >
>
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