01-23-07 12:20 AM
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<20070122070330.6ba29e3d.rafaelc@dcc.ufmg.br>, Rafael Almeida wrote:
>I was having trouble installing windows on my computer and then I did
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=1 bs=512
>It deleted my partition table and the windows instalation
All that did was zero the MBR on the primary master IDE drive.
>started without any problems. But after editing my partition table with
>cfdisk, the instalation of windows doesn't even start (it locks on a
>black screen after some message about trying to identify my computer).
What exactly does the partition table look like? I don't use cfdisk,
but as root you can try
/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda
which should list the partition table.
>I think windows probably doesn't recognize the partition table format
>and locks for some reason. Are there any tools I could use to make my
>partition table compatible with windows and linux? Any other ideas on
>how I could solve this problem will be apreciated.
Not enough information. What kind of drive? What distribution/release of
Linux? What version of windoze? Do you know that the drive is jumpered
correctly? I'm assuming you read the man page for 'cfdisk(8)' very
carefully.
As a _general_ statement, windoze is quite limited in capability, and is
quite crude when installing. The best solution is to install windoze first,
setting aside (not partitioning) the space you intend to use for Linux.
The many Linux installation programs can easily handle installing along
side of an existing windoze installation - the reverse is never true. See
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 39240 May 3 2001 Install-Strategies
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 68456 Jul 8 2002 Installation-HOWTO
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 18850 Mar 13 2000 MultiOS-HOWTO
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 22488 Dec 4 2000 Pre-Installation-Checklist
>I'm not sure this is the right newsgroup, if there's a more apropriated
>one, please tell me.
On the 15th of each month, there is a posting to the Usenet newsgroups
news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, and news.lists.misc with the
subject "List of Big Eight Newsgroups". Searching for the Linux
newsgroups in that file, I find:
[compton ~]$ zgrep linux big.8.list.01.15.07.gz | cut -f1 | column
comp.os.linux.advocacy comp.os.linux.misc
comp.os.linux.alpha comp.os.linux.networking
comp.os.linux.announce comp.os.linux.portable
comp.os.linux.answers comp.os.linux.powerpc
comp.os.linux.development.apps comp.os.linux.security
comp.os.linux.development.system comp.os.linux.setup
comp.os.linux.embedded comp.os.linux.x
comp.os.linux.hardware comp.os.linux.xbox
comp.os.linux.m68k
[compton ~]$
and the most appropriate group would be
[compton ~]$ zgrep linux.setup big.8.list.01.15.07.gz
comp.os.linux.setup Linux installation and system administration.
[compton ~]$
>As it is a windows and linux issue I thought I could post it on a unix
>or windows newsgroup. Since I don't have windows instaled I think any
>solutions have to come from a unix program, so I posted this here.
Linux has had it's own newsgroups for about 15 years now. Depending on
how your news server is set up, you might see a lot more than that.
[compton ~]$ grep -c linux .newsrc
1119
[compton ~]$
A few of those might even be useful - but I'd recommend sticking with the
17 groups listed above.
Old guy
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