[NCLUG] RE: Hard Disk Configuration

[John Purser]

-----Original Message-----
From: nclug-admin at nclug.org [mailto:nclug-admin at nclug.org]On Behalf Of
Matt Taggart
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 11:01
To: nclug at nclug.org
Subject: Re: [NCLUG] RE: Hard Disk Configuration



"John Purser" writes...

> Just rebooted to an MS-Dos 6.2 Disk and ran Fdisk.  The output is (Rotated
> to format):
>
> Partition:		1		2
> Status:		A
> Type:			Non Dos	Ext Dos
> Volume Label:
> Megabytes:		55		3219
> System				3
> Usage:		1%		100
>
> Looks like I've got about 3 gigs in an extended Dos partition.  I had
> installed a workstation install of Red Hat 7.0 earlier but that went in on
a
> brand new disk.
>
> Suggestions?

1.) Use fdisk under Linux. Its much nicer and cfdisk is even nicer. Besides
who wants to run DOS?

How?  Is this one if the disk utilities from the floppy images or run it
under Linux?

2.) Did the RedHat 7.0 install prompt you to partition the disk or did it
just
do it/use the existing partitions?

I did not partition the disk.  I brought it home new, installed it, and put
the Red Hat CD in the player.  During install it asked me if I wanted to
manually set the partitions using DiskDruid or Fdisk, I said no.

3.) When doing a new install I almost always blow away the existing
partitions
and make new ones. You might try that.

Isn't that what fdisk would do?  Let me try the Linux one.  Like I said, not
afraid of re-installing.

4.) How do you know it's a 40GB disk?

Bought it new and have another just like it running on my W2K desktop.
COULD be mis-labeled etc. but I'm betting I screwed something up instead.

5.) Are you sure the disk you're looking at is right one? Is there more than
one disk in the system?

Only hard drive on the system.

--
Matt Taggart
matt at lackof.org

Thanks for getting back to me Matt.

John Purser