Hello

I wonder if someone could help me out with Linux installation. I've
done a few installs before with Mandrake, but my latest has given me
some problems (I'm a relative newbie).

In a nutshell, it appears I have screwed up my partition table, and I
wonder if I can fix it without blatting the disk and doing a complete
re-install.

In summary:

- Trying to dual-boot Win 2000 and Linux
- Used Partition magic to set-up a 50MB boot partition at the start of
the disk, then windows partition, then linux
- Successfully installed Mandrake 9.2
- Tampering with grub prevented a proper boot into Mandrake
- After much faffing, decided to reinstall.
- Subsequent Mandrake reinstall failed (though win 2000 still boots
fine)

So now Partition Magic hangs before starting, Red Hat Fedora install
won't complete (gave up on Mandrake). But Mandrake install allows you
to get fdisk started, or use the Mandrake repartitioning tool. This I
did and have deleted my Linux partitions, ready for new install.
Looks like fdisk is my best hope from here, but I'm not sure what to
do.

(see below for fdisk output)

So, can I salvage this situation and install Linux without having to
clear the Windows partition?

Matt

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$ fdisk /dev/hda1
(verify output)
partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary
warning partition 1 overlaps partition 2
partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary
total allocated sectors <some huge number> is greater than the maximum
<some smaller number>


$ fdisk /dev/hda
disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3736 cylinders

Nr Af Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size Id
1 80 1 1 7 254 63 1023 112518 30587697 07
2 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0