Ill-logical drive

[KRO]

Hi. I'm having a little problem with fdisking a 6Gb hard drive, which I use to test different things on. I want to make three partitions, so I use my '98 startup disc and run fdisk. The drive won't let me delete the extended DOS partition because it says that I have logical drives which need to be removed first. Well when I try to delete them, it says they are not defined. So now what? The extended DOS part is only 290Mb.
I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks. :-/

[GX1_Man]

You can use a Windows 98 boot disk to do this, assuming the drive geometry is correct. If you continue to have problems, you can also download a Linux CD (Slackware Disk 1, for instance) and use the CFDISK utility to remove ALL partitions. A borrowed Win2000 or XP disk will do it also.

[KRO]

Thank you for your reply, GX1_Man. Since posting, I did find my Win 98 boot disc and used it to totally reinstall Windows 98 all on one partition. Then I went to fdisk and partitioned it for three drives and formated and installed '98 on one of them. Quite a hassle, and a lot of time. I'm going to try again to install Linux Ubuntu on one of the partitions. Do you think I'll have any problem putting it on a 2 Gb partition? Anyway thanks for the help.
Ken

[GX1_Man]

2 gigs isn't much, but it will probably fit. THe newest version may be too resource intensive. I am not sure what hardware we are working with. I could advise better if I knew that. Glad you are all fixed up though!  

[Rob Pomeroy]

If you're planning on using a graphical install of Ubuntu (i.e. as a workstation, not as a server), you will quickly run out of elbow room on a 2GB partition.  You should probably be aiming at 10GB as a minimum, partly because there's just so much free software available (much of which will not drain your system resources, other than hard drive space, in any discernible way).