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["44th Regiment of Foot" <alloydog AT 44th-regiment-foot.net>]

I recently downloaded the BL3 disks.  Everything boots up OK, but
when I try to us fdisk to remove the PCs current partion/formatting
it doesn't seem to work. Am I missing something real stupid ?

This is what I did:

fdisk -l
/dev/hda1       *       1       621     1251904+        7       NTFS

So, ...

fdisk /dev/hda1
 d (delete partition)
 1 (partion 1 - as there is only one partition - though I think this
is where I am going wrong.)
 w
I get the message that the HD is sync'ing and a warning that the
partion table has changed.

fdisk /dev/hda1
 n (add partition)
 1
 start 1
 stop +1000M (the rest is to be used as a swap partion)
 n
 start ? (forgotten what the start block was, but it was the default
500 and something)
 stop 620
 w
 t
 1
 type 83
 t
 2
 type 82
 w
 sync hd etc etc

reboot ...

WindowsNT is now starting Neaaaaaaagh !!!!!
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I'm still a real newbie to Linux, but have sucessfully installed
'big' distros such as Slackware & RedHat and even Tiny Linux, but in
all cases I used cfdisk & had no problems.

Help, please.

Rob.