Signature on disk

[bdg1983]

I`m trying to install slackware 8.0. I have been using Suse for a while now, but when I try to install SW I get that no swap and native has been made. I tried to enter cfdisk but I got an error message saying there was a bad signature on disk. I tried deleting the two partitions, but that didn`t help. I have two harddisk, one 40, and one 80 gb, both of them IBM. Is this windows related (I`m running XP now, have been running w2k for a while) ? Strange that SuSE could read the partition table and not SW. And yes, I have tried fdisk in SW too, but I get the same message saying there are none fat32 or sun disksystems. which there is, I have no ntfs disk. Anybody know what`s going on?

[yard21]

If you want to delete everything on your disk, then try

cfdisk -z

to start with a zeroed partition table.
Then you can repartition your entire disk.

Hope that helps

[ 29 September 2001: Message edited by: beamy ]

[bdg1983]

I was hoping to keep my existing windows and my partition which contains a lot of stuff I`d like to keep. Any other ideas ? Thanks anyway :)