On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, ic382 wrote:
>
> > space in the extended partition to install linux. But, every time I
> > try, it says "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition". I never touched the
> > 2gb primary partition, and it was always flagged bootable. The extended
> > partition was changed around, but I don't see how that is a problem. I
> > thought the fat 32 might have been a problem with the older version.
> > But, this wasn't the case because I used partition magic to recreate the
> > 3 extended fat16 partitions, and cfdisk reported the same error. I
> > can't do much in linux with it, because the only thing I can access are
> > the utilities on the linux rescue disk I use for installation, so it
> > basically has to be fixed in dos. Please help me with this problem so
> > that I can continue to use Linux (or, if needed, I'll get the new ver).
> >
>
> Try using fdisk rather than cfdisk. I have found that it will operate on
> some drives that confuse cfdisk.
>
fdisk3 sometimes works where neither cfdisk nor fdisk work.
G John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
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