On Friday 04 October 2002 19:47, jerry k wrote:
# I'm new to GNU/Linux & Debian and am having a problem with installing to a
# system running Win2k. I've done a lot of reading on the dual-boot subject
# but haven't seen anything to make me believe there's anything wrong with my
# setup. Basically, my partitions looked like this:
#
# Primary: C: / hda1
# Primary, extended {
# D: / hda5
# E: / hda6
# F: / hda7
# G: / hda8 }
#
# hda8 was fairly large and mostly unused so I deleted it using partition
# magic in DOS and created hda8, 9 & 10 (for /, /home & swap) using cfdisk.
# Debian installed just fine :-) and i made a boot disk in the meantime
# (rather than installing lilo) with the aim of dd'ing the bootsector to c:
# and using winboot (or whatever they call it) for switching, at least until
I # figure out lilo.conf.
#
# The problem occurred when i booted up Windows. It took forever, maybe
about # 10 minutes with lots of disk activity, and when it had booted
explorer was # sloooow; not annoyingly slow, catastrophicly slow, taking 2
minutes to show # a context menu. hda8/9/10 now showed up in Windows as
Local Disk G:, # filesystem type unknown, and it became clear that the
problem only occurs # when explorer needs to show G: in MyComputer, save
dialogs and the like. #
# I've now deleted the extended partition completely and so can be flexible
# with the partitioning scheme. 3 vfat Primary partitions and one extended
# for Debian would be acceptable, but I'd like to know what the problem is,
# since I've seen similar setups work for other people with no problems and
it # seems a bit limiting to not allow Windows and Debian to share the
extended # partition.
#
# Any advice or pointers to info would be much appreciated.
#
# Cheers!
#
# Jerry K
#
#
#
Hi
I have encountered the same problem, I have some partition changes done in
linux (for now other than debian) and since then my w2k became also slow,
also REALLY slow. So I think there's a problem with the w2k partition
identification, it is maybe more advanced than in w98. In my case I was
forced to delete my win, because it became unusable. But I would advice to
have a closer look at the way w2k treats the partitions, and I also figured
out, that when the partition changes are being done in partition magic (or
other win program) there aren't problems concerning the sizes of the
partitions, but once done, they shouldn't be re-resized in linux. The format
doesn't play any role, so I suggest do the partitions in win (or in linux and
then reinstall win:) and format them in appropriate format which You like.
Just some observed facts...
Regards
Matej
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