[ale] Re: partition hell

[Joseph A Knapka]

Jim wrote:
> 
> Well, things are somewhat clearer, even if I'm not much better off. I
> expanded the DOS partition on this disk using parted from my Linux drive
> before it died. Apparently, this leaves the partition table in a strange
> state that fips can't handle. The system indicator is 55h and fips can
> only handle 4 or 6. Fips also indicates there are three partitions,
> while DOS fdisk says there is only one. It may be time to write to the
> author of fips, since I can't get parted to function in Windows with
> this drive (I did it just fine on another Windows system). If I were
> more of a DOS weenie, I might know how to edit the partition table, but
> I'm lost there. I'm still open to suggestions...very open.

If I were you, I'd burn a TomsRootBoot bootdisk, boot the machine
using it, and use Linux fdisk ('fdisk /dev/hdb' to look at/repartition
the second disk).
 
> Jim wrote:
> > My Linux hard drive finally died (never again for Western Digital!). Now
> > I'm trying to partition my existing drive for Linux. My preferred tool
> > is parted on boot and root disks. But I can't for the life of me get a
> > good write of the images to disk using rawrite.

What exactly are you trying to rawrite, and to where? Rawrite
is for making boot and root floppies, normally, not for
hard-disk use.

HTH,

-- Joe

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