preparing my hard drive

[Scott Howell]

It does not matter if the drive has paritions or not. Any disk 
partitioning software will see the drive. The reason why dos can not see 
the drive when you boot it is simply cause there's no file system on it. 
Linux will see it or more accurately the disk paritioning software will 
see it. You need to be more concerned with if the kernel sees it upon 
boot. I think you'll have no problems with taht at all if dos is failing 
cause it sees no partition then the Linux kernel will see the hardware.
Don't worry about it until it becomes a problem and then worry about who 
os sees the drive. At this point your unnecessarily focusing your energy 
on what may or may not be. I think you have verified the drive is 
functioning from a hardware point so there's little reason to hold off. 
Good luck and let us know if you have any issues arrise.


On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 08:59:50AM -0600, Glenn Ervin wrote:
> Hi Igor,
> I used fDisk.
> I removed all partitions.
> I removed the extended DOS partition.
> I guess I can get into it in DOS, but that is after it fails reading the
> drive.
> And I guess that since there is no file and directory structure, it cannot
> be read from, hence the error, and that is why windows cannot recognize it.
> But, will Linux see it when I run the installation of Linux, and
> automatically run a partition program?
> I seemed to gather that this might happen, but I want to make sure.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at attbi.com>
> To: "linux - speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 7:57 PM
> Subject: Re: preparing my hard drive
> 
> 
> Ok did you remove all the partitions from the drive? Or are all fs's
> corrupted? In anycase, fdisk measures drive geometry in either cylinders
> or sectors so you can partition the disk using either measurement. I
> believe distruid or something to that name is used under RH as the default
> partitioning tool however other distros use fdisk. If you have fdisk
> though, might as well use it as it works a bit better.
> 
> May you code in the power of the source,
> may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you,
> throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch.
> 
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Glenn Ervin wrote:
> 
> > I am getting closer to installing RedHat.
> > I have downloaded the 8.0 ISO's and made CD images.
> > But since I ran F Disk, without setting any partitions, neither CMOS or
> > windows recognizes the 8 GB hard drive.
> > I tried running FIPS, but it says that it can only partition a DOS drive.
> > * Will Linux recognize this drive when I begin to install Linux, and will
> it
> > format & partition the drive?
> >
> >
> > "Live long and prosper",
> > O. Glenn Ervin (Lenny)
> > N0YJV
> > Northeast Nebraska
> > e-mail:
> > glennervin at cableone.net
> > The above address can also be found on MSM.
> > or my work e-mail:
> > gErvin at ncbvi.state.ne.us
> >
> >
> >
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