[ale] proper way to reformat a hard drive?

[Jeff Hubbs]

When you made partitions on that drive, did you remember to set the
bootable flag on the first one (that's an fdisk option)?

- Jeff

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 13:05, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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> A brief tale of woe:
> I am putting together a box for "development/education."
> Stuffed a 60 gb hard drive in it that had in a previous
>   life been used as a slave drive -- no OS & no boot
>   sector.
> Tried to install SuSE.
> The OS installed (with some unresolved headaches) but it
>   will not boot on its own. If I don't have the install
>   CD in the drive, the BIOS apparently can not find the
>   boot sectors on the HD and simply stops.
> Obviously I need to try again, but how do I get the Suse
>   install routine to properly create the boot sectors?
>   Now I have one 56 gb partition and no idea what happened
>   to the missing 4 gb of space.
> 
> Assistance (before the installfest) would be appreciated.
> 
> Sean
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