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Tom Hearn
10-21-2002, 08:19 PM
Is there a program that I can run just to edit and look at partition information off of the Mandrake 9.0 cd install of linux? And if there is, how do I go about getting there?

Cheers!
Hayl
10-21-2002, 08:29 PM
i don't use mandrake but i assume they must have fdisk or cfdisk.

just type in fdisk at a prompt or cfdisk.
dave houk
10-21-2002, 08:31 PM
Best program I ever found for wiping a hard drive clean is "EFDISK", not to be confused with fdisk. Do a search on Google to find it. Put it on a floppy and run it. Good luck.

Dave
Tom Hearn
10-21-2002, 08:32 PM
I tried typing cfdisk and fdisk at the prompt of the install cd, no luck "kernel not found"

any other ideas?
michaelk
10-21-2002, 09:30 PM
I haven't read anything that iso9660 has more then one partition.
Not sure how multisession works but I doubt that the install CD has more then one session. I wouldn't think that fdisk would work on a CDROM.

To view the partitions of a hard drive.

fdisk -l /dev/hdx

Change x for your hard drive id. i.e. hda etc.