Re: Partitions

[Richard Lohman <rjlohman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kyle:
    It seems odd that DOS can't at least delete the extended
partition. That's a feature that should work with FDISK no matter what
kinds of logical devices are defined within the extended partition.
    anyway, to add to skull's recomendataion, you can also ftp over to:

  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/bootdisks.144/

and get the following files:

    RAWRITE.EXE (a DOS executable)
    README.TXT  (destructions)
    BARE.I      (Bootdisk image)

Then, ftp over to:

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/rootdisks/

and get the file:

    COLOR.GZ

Copy all of these to a single directory and use RAWRITE to create two
disks, the Boot disk (created from bare.i), and the root disk (created
from color.gz). See the destructions for specifics. At this point, you
would reboot the PC with the boot disk inserted. It will prompt you to
insert the root disk when it is needed. Once the system is finished
booting, login as root. Type fdisk [ENTER] to run the fdisk utility.
And yes, it is much more powerful that any cheese-eatin' DOS/Win95
FDISK. Your first command will probably be 'P' to print (display) the
partition information. 'M' prints the menu of options. I've done what
you're doing now, and I can tell you that you do not need to go to the
expert options to complete this task.
    One final note: I have to support DOS, Win95, NetWare, etc., and I
have a few multi-boot systems using System Commander. I like to keep a
copy of the LINUX boot & root disks handy no matter what O/S I'm
working on. The FDISK can do so much more, I'd rather use it than the
native O/S's if possible.
    Good luck.

:Rich


---Kyle Summers <c64c128@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>      I doono if anyone can help be about this one.  I installed
Linux on 
> a very old computer, found out that I didn't have room for all of the 
> important programs, ie g++ and make, so I decided to go back to DOS.  
> Problem is that when I did it I didn't remove the swap partition in 
> Linux and fdisk refuses to monify it in any way.  Now I have a 201
meg 
> DOS partition, and a 30 meg unusable extended DOS partition
according to 
> fdisk.  Does anybody know how to retrieve the lost 30 megs?
> 
> Kyle
> 
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