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umounting a partition made with fdisk
I made a 500meg partition off my harddrive last night with fdisk. Windows doesn't recognize this partition but I want to delete it. I don't have my linux kernel up yet so I can't do it with linux. Can anyone tell me how to unmount this drive?
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Are you sure you are *really* executing DOS FDISK?? \windows\command\fdisk.exe
Or whatever path your windows 95 is in?
I went into a 95 comp. and FDISK is this
C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\FDISK.e
I've never seen fdisk ask "what drive do you want to split" for starters... that's odd. it only asks if you want to enable large disk support (OSR 2 Windows).
If you give me your disk configuration (complete) I can make an .ASM program with some quick and dirty int 21h calls to do the trick. But I've never seen fdisk make that question... and believe me I've seen a lot!
Daniel Fonseca
Or whatever path your windows 95 is in?
I went into a 95 comp. and FDISK is this
C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\FDISK.e
I've never seen fdisk ask "what drive do you want to split" for starters... that's odd. it only asks if you want to enable large disk support (OSR 2 Windows).
If you give me your disk configuration (complete) I can make an .ASM program with some quick and dirty int 21h calls to do the trick. But I've never seen fdisk make that question... and believe me I've seen a lot!
Daniel Fonseca
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Ok, if you can answer this question i'll give you 100 points; During installation of redhat 5.1 it asks for the directory and partition that the redhat/srpms and redhat/base files are stored. I tried typing the directory where i store redhat on c drive but it didn't work. Can you tell what to type here?
What you have to do is pre-mount your C Drive (something like maybe /dev/hda1) in some directory (usually "mnt" directories are used at install time, so better leave them out of this - just create a mount point yourself):
mkdir /drivec
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /drivec (assuming your drive is vfat - other possibility is -t msdos)
I don't know (think not) if RedHat startup kernel will read Fat 32 Drives... see the outcome of this last command to be sure.
Imagine the refered dir was c:\my_img\redhat it would become the dir /drivec/my_img/redhat according to the example I'm giving - just supply that to the install program and fly away.
Hope to help,
Daniel Fonseca
mkdir /drivec
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /drivec (assuming your drive is vfat - other possibility is -t msdos)
I don't know (think not) if RedHat startup kernel will read Fat 32 Drives... see the outcome of this last command to be sure.
Imagine the refered dir was c:\my_img\redhat it would become the dir /drivec/my_img/redhat according to the example I'm giving - just supply that to the install program and fly away.
Hope to help,
Daniel Fonseca
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Ok, i'm not going to give you the full 100 because i found the answer to my second question before you gave it. But i will add 15 points to give you 75. Thanks. Also do you know if I have to have all the packages to install redhat 5.1 correctly?
No... you don't have to have *all* packages... you must have the
base packages.. libs.. system binaries... etc. you don't need X Windows either!
Do I deserve some extra points for this one? :-) kidding... thanks for the extra 15!
Daniel Fonseca
base packages.. libs.. system binaries... etc. you don't need X Windows either!
Do I deserve some extra points for this one? :-) kidding... thanks for the extra 15!
Daniel Fonseca
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