I have been trying to load redhat linux on a HP Omnibook 4000c.  I have a 2.1GB HD and 32mb of ram, the HD is a brand new Toshiba.  I have a Backpack external CDROM drive, in which I am trying to load it from.  Since Installing the new HD I have gotten a partiton corrupt error and a message to run PHDISK by pheonixmiser.  I have recently downloaded the EXE off the web, but have not ran it yet, I have been waiting for a response from redhat.  I have allocated 50md of HD space for ms-dos, and the rest for linux, 2.0GB, plety for a full install.  I have booted from the diskette provided with the cd and booted form dos and pointed to the CD-ROM and ran the batch file.  That works fine, but once it boots it does not see the cdrom any further.  It searchs automatically and I have tried manually pointing to the C:bpcdrom directory, I get a message saying it can't find it.  Somehow I get around that and proceed to the partition table in redhat, I keep going back and forth picking the cdrom type, and it finally fools it and goes into the table.  Once in the partition table I get a choice of either fdisk of diskdruid to set mount tables.  I have picked both several times.But I went with the user guide and chose diskdruid, set all mounts as instructed using a /,  /usr,  /usr/src, swap file,  and /local (which i don't need but put in any way).  I have the system set with this now.  After setting these and trying to go on I get a /etc/(something) has already been created.  I then choose another mount partition and it then says MOUNT FALUIRE.  I have gone back in and tried deleting these partitions using all methods, fdisk, and diskdruid.  I have also tried booting from floppy and running fdisk /mbr, running fdisk in msdos, nothing is deleting these partitions and rendering ther HD useless.  I have asked several people and unix guru's and have not got a resoultion. Ultimately, I want to set the laptop upas a dual boot system, I'll allocate 1.0GB for Linux and 1.0GB for win95.  If I can delete these partitions and start over, I can install win95,install partition-it and select-it software, allocate the 1.0GB for win95 and set the allocate the other 1.0GB for Linux. But as I said I cannot delete the created partition table, and why will it not see the Backpack cdrom drive. Any help is totally appreciated Thanks