[ale] its a long story

[Jeff Hubbs]

Stephen -

You need a more capable fdisk, like the one that Linux uses.  I
frequently use tomsrtbt (Tom's Root Boot), which is a highly compacted
Linux distribution that fits on a single 1.44MB floppy.  Google-search
on "tomsrtbt" and find joy.  

- Jeff

Stephen Turner wrote:
> 
> i have a laptop that hates me, i have a linux swap
> partition still on the hd cause dos wont remove it,
> says i need to remove the logical drive before the
> extended partition, then says there is no logical
> drive... yea well i was wondering if theres a floppy i
> can use to format the hd just totally wipe it. i would
> just reinstall linux but i can only have either the
> floppy or cdrom in it at one time, and it wont boot
> from cd so i tried to renew the bios, well the bios is
> updated according to the laptop. well, usually i put a
> simple bootable dos os on it just so i can install
> from cd .... i think the swap partition may be
> disallowing me to do that this time, i used redhat 6.2
> or something, its an older version, and i have redone
> my mbr several times,,.. the laptop still gives me an
> error when i sys the hard drive then try to boot. well
> if you have any questions i will be glad to answer and
> if you have any solutions i would be most grateful to
> hear them :) right now im down to my final straw and
> need a bootable floppy that will wipe the hd. linux
> and nt are the os's i know of that can do this.
> 
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