Re: DOS

by Michael Jon Muehlendorf <haoka(at)wi.tds.net>

Date:	Fri, 08 Dec 2000 11:37:21 -0600
To:	"Billy O'Connor" <billy(at)kennet1.freeserve.co.uk>, hwg-servers(at)hwg.org
In-Reply-To:	freeserve
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Hi Bill!

Run FDisk again, and choose "Delete Partition". FDisk will ask you the
volume label name of the disk, so you have to know it. You can get that by
just doing a "dir" command and DOS will say something like "Volume in Drive
C is MYDISK" or something like that. OK.

After the partition (ususally there's just one main partition, but if the
hard disk has been partitioned into more than one drive, you'll have to
delete all of them) is deleted, then FDisk will present you with another
list of choices for actions. Choose "Set Partition", (follow the prompts
through the process...it is fairly straighforward, usually you can just
create one large partition for the whole drive).

After FDisk has set your "new" DOS partition, then you can run "format.com"
on the partition to format it. My advice would be to copy the FDisk and
Format utilities from your hard drive onto a "bootable" floppy, just in
case.  After the drive is formatted, it should be ready to install Linux.

Hope that helps.

Mike

At 03:54 PM 12/8/00 +0000, Billy O'Connor wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Is there anyone out there that knows a little DOS ? I have an old 486 
>running Win3.1 that I want to put Linux on. But first I want to re-format 
>the HD. I'm unsure of how to do this is DOS.... I've tried fdisk, but I'm 
>not given the option to format, just create/delete partitions...
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bill.
>
>

Michael Jon Muehlendorf
Freedom Systems Group
email: mailto:coyote(at)scenic-bluffs.com
www: http://www.scenic-bluffs.com/fsg/

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