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38220	2002-03-07 05:56:00	At this end Erin, I saw a blank screen and 'Done' at the bottom left corner. Your posting seems to have disappeared into database limbo. Have a look at your Linux install CDs -- there should be a dosutils directory which will let you make boot floppies. Even without getting into the full Mandrake installation you ought to be able to run Linux fdisk. That should be enough to delete the BSD partitions. I'm off home now, I'll dig out my Adaptec books, and see what they say. The Adaptec boards sometimes have a jumper option which disables loading of the BIOS extension ROM. But if you could boot the SCSI, that should be OK (that is, the BIOS extensions are loaded). Tomorrow.	Guest (0)
38221	2002-03-07 06:13:00	I saw the same thing. Usually a site search for that topic will get you in.	Guest (0)
38222	2002-03-07 06:40:00	Graham, the board in question is an Adaptec 2740, I also have an Adaptec 1510A which I could chuck in if you think it'd make things simpler... To all the other chaps, I've got a Unisys SVE66 pentium 66 server, with FreeBSD on a 2GB SCSI HDD with an Adaptec 2740 Controller card. The mission objective is to get something less cryptic onto the HDD, Mandrake 8.1, (which I've just bought for my other machine), or win95. Perhaps (just a slight maybe) put both on it. The question is, how? In BIOS the drives are recorded as being not installed, except for the floppy. If I boot BSD, it goes fine. If I try to do a low level format in the setup utilities for the Adaptec board, it says it times out.' Windows Boot floppies don't recognise it... The Readme for installing mandrake on the CD points me to an Autoboot.bat file in a folder that doesn't exist. I could create a mandrake install floppy by sticking some file from the CD onto a floppy... Shall I give that a go? Thanks, Erin	Guest (0)
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