Re: unpartitioning with rescue disk
You might want to check GNU parted boot disk. But do read closely its USER
file, both in order to determine if it fits your needs and in order to find
out how to use it.
I had good expreince with its repartition and resizing features, but bad one
with its mkfs.ext2 feature.
> Quoting Ed Burton (kd6aaj@yahoo.com):
> > I tried to partition with the Rescue disk, then
> > lost my Win32 MBR. I am using EZ_Bios (installed from
> > floppy) from Western Digital (I have a new 10.2g WD
> > drive), so luckily I was able to restore the MBR. My
> > Award BIOS cannot read above 2gb I wanted a 2gig
> > partition for Debian (Potato, frozen, downloaded
> > 8/13/00), but ended up with a new drive under windows
> > (Drive D #2). Linux rescue still would not allow
> > me to partition, and says I have 4 partitions already.
> > Can I UNPARTITION it, then repartition it? The
> > instructions were not clear which one to partition;
> > The first primary listed, or the free space. I have
> > about 8gb free now (though windows98 says the second
> > HD (partition) is FAT, noncompressed, or FAT16). I
> > only have One hardrive installed. Should I use Win98
> > fdisk to fix the partition, then Re-run rescue from
> > dos?
>
> I think you are in danger of losing the contents of your disk.
> I wouldn't do anything until you've received AND understood
> some expert advice. Unfortunately I don't have time to do this
> myself at the moment (and I'm no expert). Sorry.
>
> Cheers,
>
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