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Re: format the linux native hdd to dos format

Posted by Eian on 1999-06-14

> > the problem w/ that is that DOS fdisk won't touch linux partitions
> and if you tell it to delete a non-dos disk?

It won't. Go ahead, try it. I know that I spent about half a day
attempting to do it. It is pretty clear that the DOS version of fdisk is
pretty much specialized to handling DOS/win9x partitions and chokes on
anything else.

What I ended up doing was to act like I was going to install RH Linux,
since I could get Disk Druid loaded then, use Disk Druid to mess with my
partitions and then abort the installation. Actually, this works wonders,
and has been a reason to keep the distrobution disks around ;)

Eian

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