reinstalling the Utility partition, F10 on 2550

[Michael E Brown]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:28:32AM -0700, Robert Hagg wrote:
> 
> Paul,
> 
> I'm not sure I follow. When I do an fdisk -l i get:
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 73.4 GB, 73407820800 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1               1           4       32098+  de  Dell Utility
> /dev/sda2   *           5         260     2056320   83  Linux
> /dev/sda3             261        1280     8193150   83  Linux
> /dev/sda4            1281        8924    61400430    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5            1281        2300     8193118+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda6            2301        3065     6144831   83  Linux
> /dev/sda7            3066        3321     2056288+  82  Linux swap
> /dev/sda8            3322        8924    45006066   83  Linux
> 
> I used the Dell Server Assisstant CD to create the partition.
> 
> There is an option to install Linux from the SA CD, but it only allows options for RH 7.2. I'm attempting to load RH Enterprise 4. I got a feeling someone has attempted to upgrade these systems already. They're great computers.
> 

There should be a menu called "System Tools" that should have an option
for "reinstall dell utility partition" or something like that. That
would be a positively ancient version of DSA, so might be different.
--
Michael