If I'm not mistaken, wipe is IBM specific, and it's not actually a low level
format, though many drive manufacturers are calling it that, it's a zero fill
utility which writes zeroes to the entire drive.
The debug script I sent along in an earlier email does the same thing except
it only write
Try using wipe. Its a free utility that will let you perform a low level
format on the drive then you can repartition the drive for use with any
OS. You can download it from IBM.com
Rico
On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 17:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As I remember you have to delete the partitions with
As I remember you have to delete the partitions with fdisk and
then reformat them with dos there is a web site that tells you
how to reformat a drive that was used for linux to use it for
windows I don't remember but if you search for formatting a drive
you should be able to find it.
At 10:56 AM 6/25/02 -0400, you wrote:
>At the LILO prompt, type "linux 1" to boot into single user mode.
Thanks. Now, I don't want to get this wrong, so if I want to reformat the
hard drive, do I type this?
mkfs -t /dev/hd1
TIA,
BenO
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Redhat-l
Boot with your RH CD as if you were installing RH. Click next until you are
promted to create partitions, auto, druid, or fdisk. use fdisk to delete all
partitions, it'll be all free space, write the table, go back to the
previous menu and press CTRL-ALT-DEL to abort installation.
Then boot with a
Don't understand the question...you're trying to get into the BIOS? Have you
tried sticking in a Windows boot floppy to see what happens.
re: Bios, what kind of PC is it, brand, mb, bios manufacturer, something to
work with here.
MRW
- Original Message -
From: "Ben Ocean" <[EMAIL PROTEC
At the LILO prompt, type "linux 1" to boot into single user mode.
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Ben Ocean wrote:
> Hi;
> I have a box on which I installed RH62 some time ago using the same
> password as my old server. Then I quit using it, changed servers and forgot
> the old password. Now I want to re
hello !
First, fdisk DO NOT format anything !!! just it build the partition's table
(make bootable or not a partition, change the type, create delete even
modify a partition, etc). So, you have to use other utilities like "some
mkfs"
Nonetheless I think you have some unclear conceps, let me revie
You have to use fdisk to remove the NTFS partition and repartition to
Linux Native. Then write the partition table and do a mkfs.ext2 on each
partition created. Then edit your /etc/fstab and add the device entries
for the partitions. Make sure the mount point directories exist before
mounting
