Re: Debian/WindowsNT partitioning

1997-12-11 Thread Gertjan Klein
Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because of what you say, I feel as though > it borders on "FM" but possibly it has something to do with the BIOS of > the particular machines where this has workded? "FM"? Fdisk uses standard BIOS calls to access the harddisk, so it's unlikely this ha

Re: Debian/WindowsNT partitioning

1997-12-10 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Bill Leach wrote: > > Yes I am aware of this but also have experienced in the past that doing > this (fdisk/mbr) has made it possible to partition a disk that would not > otherwise be accepted by fdisk. Because of what you say, I feel as though > it borders on "FM" but possibly it has something t

Re: Debian/WindowsNT partitioning

1997-12-10 Thread Bill Leach
Yes I am aware of this but also have experienced in the past that doing this (fdisk/mbr) has made it possible to partition a disk that would not otherwise be accepted by fdisk. Because of what you say, I feel as though it borders on "FM" but possibly it has something to do with the BIOS of the par

Re: Debian/WindowsNT partitioning

1997-12-10 Thread Gertjan Klein
Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you can boot a DOS session, you might want to try doing a fdisk/mbr on > that drive. Not being sure just exactly what you are trying to do though, > realize that issuing the above command _will_ wipe out everything on the > drive. The (undocumente

Re: Debian/WindowsNT partitioning

1997-12-09 Thread Bill Leach
If you can boot a DOS session, you might want to try doing a fdisk/mbr on that drive. Not being sure just exactly what you are trying to do though, realize that issuing the above command _will_ wipe out everything on the drive. If you do run the command, it would be a pretty good idea to take a l

Debian/WindowsNT partitioning

1997-12-09 Thread Marc Fleureck
Hi, System: PC with SCSI Quantum hard disk 3G and NT4 installed I have created 3 primary partitions of type NTFS I would like to create 2 linux partitions: system+swap but cfdisk gives an error when writing the partition table: "FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek on disk drive" I am able to recover usin