Browner87
September 7th, 2009, 06:36 PM
I'm trying to install 9.04 with an XP partition and a Dell partition and then I'm thinking of deleting another dell partition. When I boot from the live CD, I can mount my drives fine.
fdisk -l gives this:
omitting empty partition (5)
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 - 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x68000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System
/dev/sda1 1 12 96358+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 13 12414 99619065 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 34671 38914 34083019 f W95 EXT'd (LBA)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sda4 38587 38914 2620416 dd Unknown
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sda5 34671 34794 995967 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 34795 38586 30459508+ de Linux
When I try to use gparted or the install program on the desktop however, it tells my the drive is bare empty.
If I were to say what the heck and wipe it, I'd likely lose a lot of functionality and end up with a button on my computer that equals instant MBR death (yay MediaDirect *not*).. I'd also lose my Windows install and college starts tomorrow (I know, I'm really on top of things, eh?).
I know when I installed XP I needed to make a custom install disk with special matrix storage drivers, but I don't think that's the case here since I can actually mount the other partitions on the Live CD fine.
Does anyone know what's going on?
fdisk -l gives this:
omitting empty partition (5)
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 - 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x68000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System
/dev/sda1 1 12 96358+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 13 12414 99619065 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 34671 38914 34083019 f W95 EXT'd (LBA)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sda4 38587 38914 2620416 dd Unknown
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sda5 34671 34794 995967 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 34795 38586 30459508+ de Linux
When I try to use gparted or the install program on the desktop however, it tells my the drive is bare empty.
If I were to say what the heck and wipe it, I'd likely lose a lot of functionality and end up with a button on my computer that equals instant MBR death (yay MediaDirect *not*).. I'd also lose my Windows install and college starts tomorrow (I know, I'm really on top of things, eh?).
I know when I installed XP I needed to make a custom install disk with special matrix storage drivers, but I don't think that's the case here since I can actually mount the other partitions on the Live CD fine.
Does anyone know what's going on?