Re: Partitions

[skull <skull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>     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?
>>
>I tried the win95 and the win98 fdisk, but neither of them would remove 
>it...does the Linux one do something different?  Is there any easy way 
>to make a Linuc boot disk off the web?
>
>Kyle

Go to redhats ftp site or a mirror site and grab the latest redhat 5.1 boot
image, this has linux fdisk on it, use the dos utility rawrite to make the
boot floppy.  You boot to the install program and go to console #2 (alt F2)
this
gives you a root prompt and you can run fdisk from it somewhere I think.
Or you can do a expert install and wade your way to fdisk in there as well.
Be careful when doing expert mode unless you know what you are doing.
Note this is not the exact process to do it, but a general procedure, if you
need more info than this, ask.

Darron