installed freebsd and my old linux mandrake still boots up

[metron9]

New to linux, I have an old linux mandrake 2.2 version server that I wanted to install freebsd on. I have 2 scsi drives 0:0 and 2:0 and a 4:0 CD-ROM

I made the installl disks, used the FTP install and all went well. When I selected the install disk I used A for use all disk space, setup and A for auto partition. How is linux mandrake still on that disk if I just installed freebsd. I dont know how to see whats on the drives from mandrake so I am going to try and install again and select the other scsi drive

 

[onederlnd]

Make sure you reformat the disk. You need to make sure to get rid of the old installation before you continue on with the installation.

 

[metron9]

That was my next step however the CD is not autobootable so I am unable to use windowsxp to boot and format the drives

I thought about doing it with a dos disk but when I make a bootable dos disk from windowsxp there are no drives to format, because they are not dos partitions

Is there a floppy I can make that can format the drives using linux?

Maby this computer is too old, its a 133mhz pentium.

When it boots it says A is drive0 C is drive1 and D is drive2
I am not very sharp at all on scsi but I do know that drive0 should be the first drive, why it says A is drive0 is wierd.

Actually the fan on the processor sounds like a thrashing machine so I may just throw the whole thing in the shed.

I have a 650 mhz E-machine with a 20 gig drive that I am going to try and set up instead, it has a bootable cd so that will be easier to work with. I was going to go to redhat as they have book/cd combos in the book store but I am an old Vic-20 C-64, Trs-80, Amiga hack so it's kind of fun and frustrating to get back to learning the hard way again. I selected freebsd because it had a tek-tips fourm and with your response I will try the new machine (newer than the old one anyway) I will give freebsd another shot later today.

The above question on how to reformat those old drives would still be something i would like to do though. I remember there is some way of booting from a floppy that starts up a driver for a CD but I am really interested in learning linux without complicating the setup with hardware problems.

I did setup Apache and Mysql and PHP on my windows xp that works as a localhost, I don't want to expose that machine to the

http://www though.

I use frontpage2003 and I am learning PHP and mysql for a web page at powweb. What I would like to do is set up a FTP server for large files at my house so I don't run over the maximum per month 65gig or so at powweb.

Thanks for the reply.

 

[metron9]

I figured out I had to press CTRL -A during boot up to get to the scsi adaptor setup for AHA-2940 Ultra/Ultra W at Bus....
Verifying drives now and will reformat them and try another freebsd install.....






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